Quotes About Disbelief

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin wrote a book.

whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

I am all astonishment.

Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

Men! At least we don't fake it. Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me. Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this wasn't famine in Ethiopia

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.

Do I look like I'm dressed for a snake jamboree? I don't think so.

Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I'd told small children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

I was making myself a hotdog and pulling some curly fries out of the oven, and I got the call from manager, and she said, 'You got it. You're Betty Cooper.' It felt so unreal.

As Kennan had written in the Long Telegram back in February 1946: "The very disrespect of Russians for objective truth—indeed, their disbelief in its existence—leads them to view all stated facts as instruments for furtherance of one ulterior purpose or another." Now the internet could magnify their clandestine ambitions a millionfold.

People never cease to amaze me.

All social hierarchies depend on our collective belief in them. Simply by collectively disbelieving in someone's importance, we can cause this importance to vanish, which reveals the universal equality that becomes evident through the lack of belonging.

It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

Tut, tut!" said Psmith severely. "And, in case the expression is new to you, what I mean is 'Pooh, pooh!

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!

Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.   Inside

It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief.

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

You mean you won't?" he said. "You mean, you won't?" It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.