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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

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes

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 continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions. — Sayyid Qutb

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

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

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

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

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality. — Lee Strobel

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

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

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

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

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. — Watts Humphrey

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

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

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 now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile. — David Lagercrantz

to hope was to expect — Jane Austen

they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked — R.L. Stine

Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream. — Barbara Delinsky

If you have one wish, wish for everything
to be exactly as it is.
Then wait patiently for your wish to come true. — Stephen Russell

It's not "wishful" thinking. — Rhonda Byrne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love you, lirsha — Larissa Ione

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

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

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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