Quotes About Wishful

Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven't they suffered enough?

I just want Beyonce to be the mother of my children.

just wishful thinking, it could go a tamer way." "But only," Lone said stubbornly, "if I was to light out and not be here when the Halseys arrive. Right?" "That'd help, yeah. I ain't

It is tempting to explain entrepreneurial optimism by wishful thinking, but emotion is only part of the story. Cognitive biases play an important role, notably the System 1 feature WYSIATI.

If wishes were horses, there would be an easy explanation for all this horseshit

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

Fair is an invention of children and wishful fools.

that childlike inability to distinguish what is true from what we'd like to be true.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking can undo it.

To think wishfully, to rest in comforting illusion when scientific truth is conceivably within reach, is to desecrate both one's self and the universe.

science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.

the true horror of the world: it is that once a thing is done, it can never be undone. A universe of wishing can't uncrush a bug, or unspeak a word, or erase even the tiniest action from the past's ledger. The past is fixed and unalterable, a tyrant, and none of us has any power against it.

Hope?! Hope is a bit desperate, isn't it? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.

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 up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!