There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen…

I think in an ideal world, one would be able to do everything, however, we don't live in an ideal world.

— Michael Graziadei

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -…

— Norman Rockwell

“In the second Unzeitgemäße Betrachtung Nietzsche speaks about “individuals who form a kind of bridge over the wild stream of becoming” and live in…

— Heinrich Meier

I have a vision of the world and that marks where I want to go. But the world is what it is, so I…

— Javier Milei

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

“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

“Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her…

— Anonymous

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

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

— Paul Allen

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than…

— Chris Kluwe

Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe…

— Van Jones

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…

— Giles Matthey

“In an ideal world, we might have dreamed of a benevolent hand intervening so that one of them tarried a little longer while the…

— Timothée de Fombelle

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an…

— Simon Pegg

In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.

— Ellie Kendrick