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Simple sentences
This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.
It is my fear that in an understandable but foolish wish for the European Union to have its own defence capability, politicians are forging ahead with plans that are at best wishful thoughts, and at worst dangerous.
Movie subtitles
This is plain, ordinary, wishful dreaming.
Wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking Jaume, wishful thinking.
It isn't just wishful thinking, is it?
Just wishful thinking.
That's wishful thinking, if ever I heard it.
I'm not against wishful thinking, not now.
Such wishful thinking is where these ronin go wrong.
Such were my thoughts, but I see now it was nothing but wishful thinking.
You can call it wishful thinking, son. but life is built on wishing.
Antecedent will is mere wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking, I call it.
That's wishful thinking. It's only just started.
That's either a deliberate lie or wishful thinking.
And when I woke up, the dames were gone, and so was my 200 bucks. I went to the police, and they wouldn't believe me. They said my story was wishful thinking.
John rhoades, formerly a reflection in a mirror, a fragment of someone else's conscience, a wishful thinker made out of glass, but now made out of flesh, and on his way to join the company of men.
Wishful thinking, Mr. Strock?
You've planned your vengeance out of the crazy quilt of your imagination sewed together with thin little threads of wishful thinking.
Or perhaps, wishful thinking, doctor.
I'd been floating around up there, and I suppose I was dizzy and that, in combination with a lack of oxygen and worry and wishful thinking.
Wishful words, me boyo. Wishful words.
SERGEANT, I'M WISHFUL TO SCOLD YOU, BUT WOULD YOU BE SO OBLIGING AS TO STAND ON THAT PAPER WHILE I DO IT?
I TELL THEM WHAT THEY'RE WISHFUL TO HEAR, MUM.
But what's the point of wishful thinking? You can't defeat time.
But that's wishful thinking!
To catch Savransky is wishful thinking.
Was it wishful thinkin'?
Yeah, wishful thinking.
You can't let wishful thinking guide your decision, Counselor.
News and current affairs
While the war in Iraq has been based on wishful thinking, the war in Afghanistan was necessary and unavoidable because it was there that the terrorist threat of September 11, 2001, originated.
Any malicious wishful thinking on the part of Assad's regime would be dispelled with every glance at the sky.
Such incorrect statements by leading officials reinforce wasteful policies based on wishful thinking.
Unfortunately, as we saw at Davos, the global climate debate is polluted with myths and wishful thinking.
This is wishful thinking.
In this area, more than in most, wishful thinking is a deadly mistake.
After 42 years of dictatorship, Libya, like Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein, needs more than wishful thinking to become a vibrant democracy.
In fact, descriptions of some third-arrow projects seem to be based on little more than wishful thinking, with new technology or knowhow apparently expected simply to fall into Japan's lap.
Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.
That may be wishful thinking.
That belief is wishful thinking: a burning Middle East can destabilize the world in many ways.
But even that may be wishful thinking.
But the electorate did not succumb to wishful thinking.
But the reduction consists almost entirely of made-up numbers and wishful thinking.
But it is wishful thinking to believe that they can be persuaded to act otherwise by international declarations that lack enforcement mechanisms.
Beyond his message's wishful thinking, the public's reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.
But, with GDP growth now slowing across Asia, that hope appears to be wishful thinking.
In fact, the financial statements of mega-banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.
Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?
That may still prove to be wishful thinking.
But this might be wishful thinking.
In such a Tower of Babel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's call for a political union to save the euro is wishful thinking, even for the staunchest European official.
Pretending that banks that passed modest stress tests can be kept open indefinitely with little collateral damage is wishful - and dangerous - thinking.
The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.
To believe that such a vision can work for Russia, Ukraine, and Europe is not wishful thinking, but rests on the successful experience of France and Germany in promoting amity.
The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.
In such circumstances, more than wishful thinking can come into play: we might have few incentives to think hard at all.
It is time for Europeans to end their wishful thinking of a continental order determined by the rule of law.
That is typical wishful thinking among politicians.
This might be wishful thinking, however.