Quotes About Wishful

Without action, we can relegate ideas about social harmony and bridge-building to the realm of wishful thinking.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

There's nothing more pathetic than dreaming dreams you know can never come true.

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.

Wishful thinking, that time might heal—it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly.

In the Lake Debo region (in Mali, on the Niger), pyramids are also found, and these were dubbed "mounds," as might be expected. This is the usual procedure in the attempt to disparage African values. In contrast, there is the reverse procedure consisting of describing a clay tumulus—a real mound—in Mesopotamia, as the most perfect temple that the human mind can imagine. It goes without saying that such reconstructions are generally mere wishful thinking.

There are times in life you wish dinosaurs weren't extinct and could be whistled to come and gulp you down.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I'm not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!

But I want it anyway, Ed. I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.

I learned that what men believe about the gods is mostly their own wishful imaginings. The idea that a man can bend the immortals to his will with prayer and sacrifice or pious confession is ludicrous. The immortals do only what suits them best, and that is care for their own power and pleasure.

we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

He smiled a little sadly. "I wish you could," he said.

I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash fervor, that life can be—that it will yet be, and most certainly—as you would wish it. How could I have been so foolish?

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

What a load of crap, thought Frances, while simultaneously thinking, Please let it be true.

Dreaming is cheap. It doesn't cost a thing. In dreams you don't have to pay the bills or pay the rent. In dreams you can buy a house and be loved back.

Responsibility entails that we demand and work for the change or transformation we yearn for in our society instead of wishful thoughts.

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

May you stay Forever Young