you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“watching me fidget. Okay. That was probably wishful thinking, but it really did feel that way. So much so that I refused… — Karice Bolton Copy Share Image
“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions;… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“how wonderful if something that only be existed in wishful thinking, comes and expresses themselves without being asked forcefully; but alas, i'm… — Aditia Rinaldi Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“The war on terror for which civil liberties have been curtailed and hundreds of billions of dollars spent has failed miserably. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our reality is masked as a medium for growth. What we are growing is our Will which, when aligned with a given… — Laura Knight-Jadczyk Copy Share Image
“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In theory, if some holy book misrepresented reality, its disciples would sooner or later discover this, and the text’s authority would be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. (That’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When someone stubbornly insists that they saw something with their own eyes, i take it as a statement mixed with wishful thinking.… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn't interfere in other… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief or popular wishful thinking, love doesnt always end happily. It doesnt always result in the joining of two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It is common to say Watergate shattered American innocence, that Vietnam shattered American innocence, that September 11 shattered American innocence, that Trump… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
