Wishful Thinking Quotes

I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

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

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

At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

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

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

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

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

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

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

Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

There is a big difference between positive thinking and wishful thinking. Sitting around and wishing is definitely not going to create a miracle in your life.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

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

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

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

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

You can get what you want in life.You must reach out with all your heart.

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

Imagine the possibilities of your dreams.

We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

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

I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.

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

You can be all that you wish and desire to be.Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

As important as faith is when it comes to success, when it is not accompanied with some consistent actions, its purpose becomes nothing but a wishful thinking.

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

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

Please tell me the truth about yourself.

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

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