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
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that,… — Bernard Hopkins 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
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
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
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert 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
I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t be a hero in the hero-tale sense. Not even in a fantasy? No. Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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
“I can’t see you at all, actually. I’m . . . pretty sure I’m in love with Travis.” My whole world stopped.… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“What started out as wishful thinking, angel given signs from above, was now just an imprisoned lot of dirty, broken pieces that… — Elizabeth Lee Copy Share Image
I wish you can hold my hand when I'm scared but you can't... I wish I could gives you hugs, but I… — Becka Miller Copy Share Image
“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to… — Robert A Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming… — Otep Shamaya Copy Share Image
“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it,… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures… — Anne Stuart 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
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When you want something bad enough, it never turns out how you thought it would be. — Faith Jackson Copy Share Image
“He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“You can be all that you wish and desire to be. Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity. — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.” — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
