#ideal

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them. ↗

— Adam Rex

#humor #ideal-partner #marriage #humor

Bill was — there was no other word for it — cool. He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill’s clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ideal #inspirational #inspirational

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#back #been #business #businesses #call

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#certainty #clear #commitment #ideals #meaning

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#idealize #know #someone #you

We know the ideal isn't where the action is. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#ideal #know #where

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#defensive #homosexual #hopelessly #ideal #like

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ↗

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#always #doubt #ideal #same #varies