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Quotes About Incredulity

I'M NOT buying it, Daniel.
~ Melissa Scott
Oh my god," she said out of the blue. "Can you believe it's only three-fifteen?
~ Joshua Ferris
she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.
~ Julia Quinn
Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment.
~ Tina Brown
Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I'm a natural born skeptic.
~ Mike Flanagan
Anguish is an almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, feel, and think—it comes for our bones.
~ Brene Brown
familiar grief—a grief we've come to know and understand and even integrate into our lives—can surprise us again and again, often in the form of anguish. This is especially true when something sparks shock and incredulity in us, like the letter that Carmen's mother had written to her.
~ Brene Brown
It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with
~ Bram Stoker
We will know that socialism has established itself when we are able to look back with utter incredulity on the idea that a handful of commercial thugs were given free rein to corrupt the minds of the public with Neanderthal political views convenient for their own bank balances but for little else.
~ Terry Eagleton
enter." "This is a joke, right?
~ Brian Haig
in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness
~ Herman Melville
Errant's horse-humped earhole, what the fuck is this?
~ Steven Erikson
After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?
~ Naomi Novik
The reason of that is, she said eagerly, that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so. This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel ears like the thirteenth stroke of crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
~ Thomas Hardy
My skepticism is not based on religious belief, or on a belief in any definite alternative. It is just a belief that the available scientific evidence, in spite of the consensus of scientific opinion, does not in this matter rationally require us to subordinate the incredulity of common sense. That is especially true with regard to the origin of life.
~ Thomas Nagel
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
~ burroughs edgar rice
Then to her: "Don't get me wrong. I admire your guts coming here tonight. That shows me something. But I've got a question for you." "What?" "Who is going to protect these people now?" he asked. "You?" He said it with incredulity. She felt her face flush hot again, and she sipped the glass of wine for something to do.
~ C.J. Box
What is this guy . . . nuts?
~ Gennifer Choldenko
Oh man," Powell said, laughing in disbelief. "Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?
~ Tim Lebbon
I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.
~ Tobias Wolff
I still don't believe it," Christina said. "I shook hands with the president." "You shook—that's what you did!" Alex teased her. "Your hand was shaking like a leaf.
~ Carole Marsh
Slynt looked about the solar, at the other Eastwatch men. "Does this boy think I fell off a turnip wagon onto my head?
~ George R.R. Martin
Shut the front door!
~ Jaci Burton