Wishful thinking Quotes

It's not "wishful" thinking.

— Rhonda Byrne

I got a big problem. It's called

— Anonymous

hope is not a plan of action.

— Susan Jacoby

“Wishful thinking is a powerful force.”

— Susan Wiggs

“I love you, lirsha”

— Larissa Ione

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

— Jalal Talabani

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

— Amanda Marshall

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

— Watts Humphrey

“All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.”

— Mark W Boyer

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Hope was right below wishful thinking and above a rain fucking dance.”

— V. Theia

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

— Bjorn Lomborg

“Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.”

— Emily Whitman

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

— Deb Caletti

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

— George Friedman

“Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that…

— Bill Schutt

“If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be…

— Susan Neiman

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

— Magnus Nwagu Amudi

“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.”

— Tai Solarin

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

— Justine Musk

“You have got to have a concept of the volume around here." "Was the dream wishful thinking, or could Spirit be indestructible,…

— Phil Arnold

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he…

— Ernest Mandel

“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

“Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let…

— Harold S. Kushner

“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Criss Jami

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people…

— Vincent Bugliosi

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either…

— Anonymous

“Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that…

— Christian Wiman

“When they wish to be top dogs and become the heartbeat of all attention, some appear to be missing grit and find…

— Erik Pevernagie

Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,…

— Gary Hustwit

“All of us want to bury our heads in the sand when taxes are due, when we have bad habits we know…

— Anonymous

“Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive…

— Anonymous

“Thomas Edison said in all seriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labour of…

— Dale Carnegie

“The way out of the drama triangle, as many spiritual teachers, therapists and coaches have suggested, is the creative orientation. This is…

— Frank Forencich

“I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal,…

— Louise Penny

Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.

— Woodrow M. Kroll

“You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.”

— Simona Panova

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

— Amy Tan