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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
— David Levithan
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
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 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
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
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
— Irvine Welsh
Please tell me the truth about yourself.
— Diane Samuels
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
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
— Deb Caletti
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
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
Wishful thinking, that time might heal - it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly.
— Charles Todd
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
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.
— Watts Humphrey
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
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 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
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
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
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
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
— Richard Dawkins
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
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
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
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