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Quotes About Disbelief

He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not a face; this is the other part of knowing something, when there is no proof, but neither is there any way toward disbelief. Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light. Bird was like that. Startling, elegant, alive.
~ Mary Oliver
I am skeptical, only because I have read the 1978 paper by researchers at Pennsylvania State University who tried to warn away white-tailed deer by erecting roadside plywood cutouts of deer rear ends with tails a-flagging. On some, the raised tail was painted white; on others, an actual deer tail had been nailed in place. Sadly, because who wouldn't want to see our nation's highways lined with plywood deer asses with decomposing tails, none of it worked.
~ Mary Roach
This guy. This fucking guy.
~ Matt Fraction
Jesus Christ," Nate said, banging his head delicately against the mirror wall. "Is this even a school, or are we in some kind of experiment?
~ Maureen Johnson
Well, Pat, you aren't going to believe this…
~ Barbara Michaels
Actually, no money would change hands because ours is a barter economy. The victim would take a credit slip through the door to the warehouse, and Ma the Grub would stare at it in disbelief and scream out to Fang. "Madman! Your lunatic generosity will drive us into bankruptcy! Who will feed your starving brats when we are reduced to tattered cloaks and begging bowls?" Then he would honor the credit slip with goods that had been marked up by 600 percent.
~ Barry Hughart
the ones claiming to be in the know became the object of scorn and derision.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
~ Sam Ewing
The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I'm not hurt. I'm appalled.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
You shot heroin in the bathroom while I was disinfecting the kitchen. Didn't you?" "Of course not." He pulled on his gloves and led the way into the building. "I hatched from a pod and hid the real Jonathan under the floorboards." "You're much less creepy when you're pensive and focused. Just so you know.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
He made a derisory snort.
~ Joseph Finder
What, us?" Squirrelflight's eyes opened wide and her tail curled up. "Never!
~ Erin Hunter
His breath caught in his throat as he looked up at Bramblestar. That felt so . . . wrong.
~ Erin Hunter
You know, the suspension of disbelief is fragile. It's hard to achieve it and hard to maintain. One bit of unnecessary gore, one hip colloquialism, one reference to anything outside the imaginary world you've created is enough to destroy that world.
~ Ernest Adams
Goddammit!" he shouted. "Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?" "You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog." COURTESY
~ Ernest Cline
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I've lost my faith in science.
~ Bette Davis
When you see a guy reading off a teleprompter or a mental teleprompter, just trying to recite a script or trying to look up in the air when you forget a line. It is hard to suspend disbelief when the wrestler doesn't believe in the real-life situation that is unfolding.
~ Tony Khan
I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it.
~ Steve-O
Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.
~ Julie Anne Peters
There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
~ Alan King
I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic."-max
~ James Patterson
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
~ Max Frisch