Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

“The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will…

— Ginny Baird

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic…

— Criss Jami

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

— Vaclav Smil

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded…

— John Ortberg

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real…

— Steven Pressfield

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may…

— Andrew Lo

“Wishful Thinking You say you are over me, my heart— it skips, it sinks. I see you now with someone new, I stare, I…

— Lang Leav

“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less…

— Orson Scott Card

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful…

— Ted Wheeler

“It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.”

— Magnus Nwagu Amudi

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

— Bjorn Lomborg

There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not…

— James Howard Kunstler

We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity,…

— Bashar al-Assad

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

— William Gibson