I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Maybe this is wishful thinking, Probably mindless dreaming but if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right, — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“It is wishful thinking that an anti-extremism campaign will work when this country was founded on puritanical Islam. We have to grow… — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. — Yuval Noah Harari 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
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“To My Children, I'm dedicating my little story to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever read… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.” — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is… — Thomas Pynchon 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
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of… — Jonathan M. Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Warren is stuck in Sunday School-level, pretheological fundamentalism. It is religious infantilism of the kind that Freud to conclude that religion is… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“I wish I were … I wish I had … I wish this never happened … I wish I could be …… — Brittany Burgunder 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
“The afterlife is what you want it to be. Not what you wish it was when you are alive, but what you… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
When you want something bad enough, it never turns out how you thought it would be. — Faith Jackson Copy Share Image
“Christian legend later claimed that Peter also went to Rome and there became head of the Christian community, that is, a bishop.… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image