Quotes About Wishful

Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it.

En la vida real- pensaba Rick-, no hay campanillas mágicas como ésas para hacer que el enemigo desaparezxa sin el menor esfuerzo. una lástima.

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

So I might say to her: look, the thing you have to appreciate is that we'd just been through a century of relativism and deconstruction, in which we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes—and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Why do you always want the things that you cannot have...

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: 'I'm terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—' would not be a very propitious beginning.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Im holding on to the thought that you're not mine. I'm going to look you in the eye, smile and say, you're not mine. Then I'll walk away, turn around at the last moment and say, But I wish you were.

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.

wish I hadn't.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The stupid heart could not help but hope.

there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.