Wishful Quotes

...stop-loss and IRR recalls are nothing more than a scam to cover up the fact that wishful thinking and the politics of revenge have over-extended our military and cost the taxpayers billions. - Commentary in All Gulf Vets Magazine: First, Do No Harm

I had a line in one of my movies - `Everyone knows the same truth.` Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. One person will distort it with a kind of wishful thinking like religion, someone else will distort it by thinking political solutions are going to do something, someone else will think a life of sensuality is going to do it, someone else will think art transcends. Art for me has always been the Catholicism of the intellectuals. There is no afterlife for the Catholics really, and there`s no afterlife for the arts. `Your painting lived on after you` - well, that doesn`t really do it. That`s not what you want. Even if your painting does have some longevity, eventually that`s going to go. There won`t be any works of William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven, or any theatre to see them in, or air or light. I`ve always felt you`ve got to live your life within the context of this worst-case scenario. Which is true; the worst-case scenario is here.

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.

A temporary pipeline seems like wishful thinking, too. The work force to lay down new pipe just doesn`t exist given all the work that needs to be done on current repairs and assessment.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.