Top 100 Quotes About Ideal World
#1. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#2. In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all
Aaron Tveit
#3. As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
Steven D. Levitt
#4. I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.
Tom Stoppard
#5. Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world.
Harriet Lane
#6. Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.
Simon Pegg
#7. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.
John McWhorter
#8. In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.
Thomas Mars
#9. When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#10. In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Alastair Campbell
#11. Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Robert Gottlieb
#12. In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
Peter Singer
#13. In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.
Sophia Amoruso
#14. hoarders tend to be perfectionists, that each item they collect is one crucial part of an ideal world they are ever creating for themselves.
Kimberly Rae Miller
#15. An ideal world inhabited by carefree people is nothing more than a utopia.
Eraldo Banovac
#16. This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#17. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore De Balzac
#18. In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
Hamish Linklater
#19. After reading about ten of those self-help books, I saw that they were leading nowhere. They have an immediate effect, but that effect stops as soon as I close the book. They're just words, describing an ideal world that doesn't exist, not even for the people who wrote them.
Paulo Coelho
#20. In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken
#21. What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
Laura Linney
#22. In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#23. The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
Lauren Groff
#24. At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton
#25. I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
Freya North
#26. If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H.P. Lovecraft
#27. Geniuses are disconcerting. Their comings and goings in the ideal world give one vertigo ... They have a telescope in one eye and a microscope in the other.
Victor Hugo
#28. In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.
Christina Baker Kline
#29. The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.
Guy Kawasaki
#30. The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
Kevin Smith
#31. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Philip K. Dick
#32. God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#33. My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.
Jon Ronson
#34. In an ideal world everyone would ask "Who am I?" every day, and since "I" is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer.
Deepak Chopra
#35. In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
#36. An ideal world in my own home ... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for ...
Nick Hornby
#37. Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
Arsene Houssaye
#38. In an ideal world, no one would need a therapy. In this world, many people did but didn't get it for a variety of reasons. Liam believed some of them turned to the world of doms and subs.
Jane Davitt
#39. In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
Ben Goldacre
#40. In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
Benjamin Graham
#41. In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.
Ellie Kendrick
#42. We don't live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.
Billy Graham
#43. In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.
Tom Colicchio
#44. The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.
Danny Wallace
#45. They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.
Isaac Asimov
#46. If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.
Tyler Blackburn
#47. He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.
George Eliot
#48. I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.
John Amaechi
#49. In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.
Chris Kluwe
#50. In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.
John Mearsheimer
#51. In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.
Miranda July
#52. It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay
#53. In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
Barry Schwartz
#54. In an ideal world I could do hellish things to her and she'd love it but in this world I came to save Perry. No one else seemed to give a shit.
Karina Halle
#55. In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
Frank Gehry
#56. In an ideal world, we'd all transform ourselves into experts and make judgments based on extensive knowledge. Given that this will never happen, our next best option is to emulate the wisdom of Socrates: We become wiser when we acknowledge our ignorance.
Joshua Greene
#57. In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution,
Ben Carson
#58. I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
Peter T. King
#59. Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
Chenjerai Hove
#61. In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.
John Lanchester
#62. If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
Kate Bush
#63. In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences as the character and you just feel so right in it. That's the first thing I look for.
Giles Matthey
#64. In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
Stacy Schiff
#65. In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.
Peter Jackson
#66. You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.
Crispin Glover
#67. In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
Gary Hamel
#68. As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The
Walter Scott
#69. In an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.
K.J. Parker
#70. A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
David Lynch
#71. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
#72. Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#73. In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
Sam Yagan
#74. In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'
Henry Ian Cusick
#75. In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
Zooey Deschanel
#76. There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
#77. In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
David Yates
#78. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
#79. In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.
Anne Robinson
#80. [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
Gottfried Leibniz
#81. She believed that, in an ideal world, the working class would rule the country, but she had no particular desire to ask any of them to tea.
John Mortimer
#82. Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn't exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#83. We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
Tim Berners-Lee
#84. A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world.
William James
#85. Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.
Herman Melville
#86. Every poet ... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Thomas Carlyle
#87. The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone De Beauvoir
#88. The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.
Romain Rolland
#89. The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Owen D. Young
#90. The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
Thomas L. Friedman
#91. Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
Jeff Greene
#92. Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.
Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen
#93. Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship.
(Scientific American, February, 1998)
John Hale
#94. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.
Stephen Jay Gould
#95. The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.
Kato
#96. The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#97. I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
George Edward Woodberry
#98. The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre De Coubertin
#99. In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Paul Ryan
#100. The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
Cristina Saralegui
