| "Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana |
| "Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man." »Alain |
| "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." »Johann von Goethe |
| "No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." »Bill Tammeus |
| "Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." »Joey Bishop |
| "On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford |
| "The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football." »Mark White |
| "No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin..." »Dumb & Dumber |
| "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." »Herbert Henry Asquith |
| "I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have." »Jewel |
| "An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity." »George Santayana |
| "An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't." »Sacha Guitry |
| "Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." »Dr. Karl Menninger |
| "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." »Earl Nightingale |
| "No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies." »Daisy Bates |
| "Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness." »George Sand |
| "How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana |
| "Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana |
| "The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach." »Sophocles |
| "That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green |
| "It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman |
| "The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability." »Tom Lehrer |
| "The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty |
| "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." »Brian Tracy |
| "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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