Idealizes Quotes & Sayings

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet. — Helen Rowland

I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out. — John D'Agata

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization. — Gaston Bachelard

The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores. — Andrew Solomon

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension. — Richard Armitage

When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes. — Evangeline Lilly

I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in. — A.M. Homes

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. — Nita Lowey

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are. — Philip Roth

I am grown, with children of my own. But inside I am still a daughter. A daughter is a woman who remains internally dependent, who does not shape her identity and direction as a woman, but tends to accept the identity and direction projected onto her. She tends to become the image of woman that the cultural father idealizes. — Sue Monk Kidd

Let us who hail from Ireland stand to the last by the stars and stripes! — Thomas Francis Meagher

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. — Carolina Herrera

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. Beneath — Julian Barnes

One idealizes people when they're away, it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and when one sees them again one's often surprised that one saw anything in them at all. — W. Somerset Maugham

Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of just playing one, I could probably have found a cure to cancer within five years. — Zach Braff

I know,I can smell it, too, — Deborah Harkness