187 Quotes About Ideals

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.