Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or ring:
“The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)