“It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.” MenI CanStatesPresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesAuthorityConscienceIdealsActivismProtectedTormentRelaxedHostilityBerating Author:Benjamin Spock
“I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.” I CanFatherIdeals Author:Steven Saylor
“If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.” IfsI CanMinutesIdealsCartoonEditorials Author:Paul Conrad
“With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.” FeelsI CanLightAbleBlackStageLike YouIdealsComing OutBubblesBest TimesPitch Black Author:Bill Nighy
“The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.” IfsYearsI CanStatesEnoughHumilityBecomingIdealsSaintMeeknessOld YearDecrepit Book:Wild Talents Source: Wild Talents
“I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.” PeopleI CanSoulPurposeCertainIdealsFulfillingMaintainingRight DirectionTrue Meaning Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.” IfsWorldWantWellsMadeI CanBookWantedHateTurnsNextChancePerfectObjectsColorTenPagesIdealsI HateMade ItNext TimeDiscouragingAnother ChanceAccommodations Author:Joan Didion
“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingI CanTwoFeelingsDifferencesPiecesCuttingIdealsLonelyIncreaseStressIntentionBehaveSplitsProve MyselfBest Intentions Author:Alan Watts