Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or state:
“Our ideal ... must be a language as clear as glass—the person looking out of the window knows there is glass there, but he is not concerned with it; what concerns him is what comes through from the other side.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.”
—Henry Chadwick (b. 1920)