Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

The Hours

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

For One More Day

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Selected Poems

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.

Wantin

It is an extravagant gesture,' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

Wishful Thinking

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

Ron Perlman

I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!

Sarah Parish

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

Murray Rothbard

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

Mark Twain

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Merritt Wever

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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.

Jan Brewer

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Vivienne Westwood

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Emily Giffin

I always pray, and then get busy working, because I clearly understand that praying without consistent actions is nothing but a wishful thinking.

Edmond Mbiaka

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Fulton J. Sheen

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Martin Scorsese