Quotes About Wishful

Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?

Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.

I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.

And maybe 'if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas

My objective at these buyer-seller meetings was to display so much knowledge about the property and the closing of the deal that even the seller would be embarrassed to challenge my right to a commission. (If you're chuckling and shaking your head from side to side over that last comment, you're starting to get it, because my objective proved to be nothing more than wishful thinking. Sellers always challenge agents' commissions.)

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

M: Fantasy just makes me hungrier.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.

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.

One easily believes what one desires.

Those two great genies of wishful fulfillment – messianic fervor and technological power – have spotted each other. If they come together, the world, as it is now known, will no longer exist.

In that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

May you live forever, and may I never die.

I really, really want a golf cart, but I know that won't happen.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that.

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.