Top Wishful Thinking Quotes

…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.

I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.

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

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

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

how wonderful if something that only be existed in wishful thinking, comes and expresses themselves without being asked forcefully; but alas, i'm too immersed in the excitement until i don't realize t...

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any...

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.

The vision people hold of the world to come is but a reflection, with predictable wishful distortions, of the world in which they live.

I have too many wishes and feel that none of them are within my reach. But I also believe that the moment we're beyond wishes is either the moment we're truly happy, or the moment to give up

Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.

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.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Betw...