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Quotes About Incredulous

We are suspicious of those CEOs who regularly claim they do know the future—and we become downright incredulous if they consistently reach their declared targets. Managers that always promise to "make the numbers" will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
~ Warren Buffett
You know about all the villainous people who are lurking in the hotel?" Klaus said, equally incredulously. "Yes," Justice Strauss said. "We observed rings on all the wooden furniture, from people refusing to use coasters. Obviously there are many villains staying in the hotel.
~ Lemony Snicket
Ranger pulled onto the shoulder and reprogrammed the GPS system. "Lucky for you, you look good in a T-shirt," Ranger said. "Lucky for you I don't have a gun on me." Ranger turned to me. His voice was low and even, but there was a whisper of incredulous disbelief. "You're not carrying a gun?" "Didn't seem necessary for us both to have one.
~ Janet Evanovich
The amazing advance public attention to this film is surely due not so much to us (I mean to the curiosity our undertaking arouses) as to that Beauty and Beast we thrilled over as children. Happily, there is some remnant of childhood in this jaded public. It is this childhood we must reach. It is the incredulous reserve of the adults that we must overcome.
~ Jean Cocteau
Ironskin will truly buy food with money? she said, incredulous. Of course. I don't steal, Sturm said. You have much money? Not so much, he said. I'm not rich. That I figure. Rich man always steal, Tervy said.
~ Unknown
To have the injured husband regard him calmly and say merely, "Oh? Why?" was not merely unexpected but Ã¢â'¬Â¦ infamous. Absolutely infamous. "Why?" John Grey repeated, incredulous. "Did you say 'Why?' Ã¢â'¬Â "I did. And I should appreciate an answer.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another.
~ Cesare Beccaria
I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
~ Demetri Martin
His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum." "'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance. She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible.
~ Patricia Briggs