Quotes About Wishful

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

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

All those maybes are just hope looking for a place to land.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

A lot of Wynonna is what I wish I could be. I don't like confrontation. I'm pretty polite. But I think she's the side of me that, if I could be free, that's who I'd be.

There are many of these stories going around, these wonderful wishful thinking dreamworld inventions of the unhappy male, but most of them are too fatuous to be worth repeating, and far too fruity to be put down on paper. There is one, however, that seems to be superior to the rest, particularly as it has the merit of being true.

I'd rather not have had a glimpse of what I've been missing.

I often imagine myself engaged in a slew of activities to transform their destiny; a genie fighting against evil. Wishful thinking perhaps, but the tedium and tension involved in the very process pushes aside such cogitations and I return to a self-centred life of good meals and an air-conditioned room.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

If wishing could make men die, there'd be nary a live one left.

She says that everyone creates a version of her life that she wishes were true and tries to believe.

Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.

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

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.

Some things worked far better in imagination than reality. In imagination, she was intrepid and resourceful; in reality she wished she were home, wrapped in a quilt.

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 more wishful thinking than reality.

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

Even though we never dated, seeing John again is what I imagine seeing an old boyfriend feels like. A wishful sort of feeling. Familiar, but just a little bit awkward, because there's so much left unsaid between us.

Starlight, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.

If we want to Fascism we must understand it. Wishful thinking will not help us. And reciting optimistic formulae will prove to be as inadequate and useless as the ritual of an Indian rain dance.

its pretty to think so