Best Wishful Quotations

104 Wishful quotes by 89 unique authors

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of… — Richard Dawkins
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on… — Laini Taylor
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future. — Maria V. Snyder
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates… — Rick Riordan
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in… — Barack Obama
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more… — Gian-Carlo Rota
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility. — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. — Chuck Palahniuk
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. — Richard Dawkins
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world… — Steven Pressfield
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on… — John Ortberg
Where there is life there is wishful thinking. — Gerald F. Lieberman
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be… — Andrew Lo
And somewhere amidst the bargaining, the tears, the selflessness, the wishful thinking, I found clarity. He wasn't, he couldn't ever love me the way I… — Vivaciousvicky
Happy thoughts or wishful thinking won't cut it. Rather, the trick is to replace negative thoughts with more balanced thoughts. — Senoraroy
You lie to my face about things we did together. And every time I see you, it's like I'm being punched in the gut over… — Kayla Jackson
And I have learned not to rely on all the promises you make, 'Cause when you play with fire, getting burned is just a chance… — WoeIs Me
I wish you can hold my hand when I'm scared but you can't... I wish I could gives you hugs, but I can't I wish… — Becka Miller
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the… — Robert A. Heinlein
Maybe this is wishful thinking, Probably mindless dreaming but if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right, — Taylor Swift
This all was only wishful thinkin, this all was only wishful thinkin. — Taking Back Sunday
Happy thoughts, wishful thinking either way...keep on smiling! — Read Love And Learn

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