We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When you want something bad enough, it never turns out how you thought it would be. — Faith Jackson Copy Share Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It’s faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. — George Eliot 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
Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
And somewhere amidst the bargaining, the tears, the selflessness, the wishful thinking, I found clarity. He wasn't, he couldn't ever love me… — Vivaciousvicky Copy Share Image
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell 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
“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
“So it's pretty simple for me: Love when you can. Do the work that is yours to do. Be the person that… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“Hope is one of the theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not, as some… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
“ I now pronounce you husband and wife. I hadn’t considered the kiss. Not once. I suppose I’d assumed it would be… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“From the outset, it was clear to me that Boot’s dictum was wishful thinking. Already the Bush doctrine had made a vicious… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“This will not be my fate,” I said firmly, confidently. “And it won’t be Lillatta’s and maybe not even yours, though that… — Michael Puttonen Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis 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 major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. — George Sarton Copy Share Image
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world. — Justine Musk 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
If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that… — Bill Schutt Copy Share Image
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
“It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.” — Magnus Nwagu Amudi Copy Share Image
