Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or state:
“If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)
“Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state and inclination of the day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)