Quotes About Superstition

The Apollo curse is something I don't even think about.

Actually, I don't even believe in curses.

I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces... or my brothers... in the audience. It comforts me.

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

It is silly. The whole notion of cause-and-effect is probably superstition. But the same cycle shows a peak in house building right after a peak in marriages.

shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first.

Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.

she turned religious. How could she help it? No one can help it in the wilds; life there is not all earthly toil and worldliness; there is piety and the fear of death and rich superstition.

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.