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You should never wish for wishful thinking. — David Levithan

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. — Kofi Annan

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. — Jalal Talabani

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true. — Nancy Pickard

You cannot transform the world by wishful thinking -- you must do something about it. — Jonathan Black

Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears. — Karen Maezen Miller

He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB! — Rick Riordan

If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams. — Anthony Liccione

It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility. — Terry Pratchett

A GOAL THAT IS NOT MEASURABLE IS JUST WISHFUL THINKING. — Jack Canfield

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

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

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. — Jim Rogers

It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true. — Jessica Sorensen

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ...
Polly Baker — Benjamin Franklin

Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. — Steve Maraboli

Convinced that if she wished hard enough, good things would finally happen. — Jojo Moyes

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking — Thucydides

Please tell me the truth about yourself. — Diane Samuels

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking. — Groucho Marx

All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line. — Mark W. Boyer

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Timothy Ferriss

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure — Cheryl Saban

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

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C.S. Lewis

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from. — Shannon L. Alder

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. — Ginny Baird

Don't be great at wishful thinking, you'll never get anything done. — Darrick Williams

... the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. — Louisa May Alcott

Wishful speculation is a spirit's gluttony — Aaron Ozee

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful. — Zora Neale Hurston

Where there is life there is wishful thinking. — Gerald F. Lieberman

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. — Douglas Coupland

Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality. — Philip Yancey

Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. — Luther Burbank

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

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain. — Auliq Ice

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see. — Shandy L. Kurth

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. — Joan Didion

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan

Everything you imagine can come true. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only. — Tai Solarin

I fantasized how no matter what happened, no one could ever come between us, call it wishful thinking, I called it a fact. — Holly Hood

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. — Watts Humphrey

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. Let it be enough. — Emily Whitman

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality. — Lee Strobel

I walk along an ever fading line between jaded and wishful thinking. — Sara Secora

Hope was right below wishful thinking and above a rain fucking dance. — V. Theia

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. — Fred Alan Wolf

Don't you wish some people came with a silencer? — Josh Stern

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde

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

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. — George Sarton

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn't wishful thinking. It's the rule. — A.A. Gill

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. — Charles Hugh Smith

Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality. — Woodrow M. Kroll

Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital. — Barbara W. Tuchman

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. — Zora Neale Hurston

What is needed is care; a great deal of patience; and the laying aside of many preconceived opinions, wishful dreams, and the blind sway of demands. — Jean Gebser

And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage. — Cecelia Ahern

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. — Zora Neale Hurston

Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon

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

I love you, lirsha — Larissa Ione

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic. — Steve Maraboli

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical. — B.A. Gabrielle

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. — Marty Rubin

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. — Chuck Palahniuk

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. — Jonathan M. Wainwright

Wishful thinking is a powerful force. — Susan Wiggs

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson. But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful. — Nora Roberts

Without total dedication & discipline, success in any field is just a wishful thinking. — Subodh Gupta

Wishful thinking pretty much always comes back to slap you in the face. — Ellen Hopkins

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

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

But this is wishful thinking: as the Polis Governor of Bulikov, the capital city of the Continent, it is her duty to preside over all trials, — Robert Jackson Bennett

Without a concrete plan these goals were nothing more than wishful thinking. — Paul Boag

Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. — Neal A. Maxwell

Oh, how I wish I was a woman - his woman. — A.R. Von

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't. — Emma Donoghue

Everyone - black as well as white - thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land. — Stephen King

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. — Paul McAuley

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay. — Amanda Marshall

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility. — Frances Moore Lappe

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg

That kind of thinking is often called wishful, but you need it for a starter. Give me a little more time, and see what I come up with. — R. G. G. LeTourneau

Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist. — Todd Henry

Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking. — Ernst Pawel