Quotes About Superstition

Es muy ruso quejarse continuamente de lo mal que van las cosas. Si la vida te va bien, cállatelo. No vayas a tentar al diablo...

Well—very Russian, you know, to complain how bad things are all the time! Even if life is great—keep it to yourself. You don't want to tempt the devil.

Joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax, agreed the curly man.

Arthur stared over the rim of his coffee cup at the grisly outside world. It was a completely pointless place to be, he realized, and he had been driven there by superstition rather than logic.

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

For reasons steeped in flawed intuition, differing cultural norms, and superstition, detectives in Perugia almost immediately focused on Amanda Knox as the target of their investigation. It was this "junk profiling" that caused them to believe that because she didn't weep for the victim in public, she didn't weep in private. This lack of public display of grief caused them to falsely believe she killed her friend.

No troubles has come my way--touching wood. He rapped the counter sharply with his knuckles.

I, too, believe in the force of superstition, one of the greatest forces the world has ever known.

I tell you he brought bad luck—I say it is the Evil Eye he had." Her hand shot out again in the well-known Latin gesture—the first finger and the little finger sticking out, the two middle ones doubled in.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

I wear the same socks after I wash them, and I like to eat the same meal the morning before a game.

Watch Brandon run across the field," Bird said. He made a beeline for the pitcher's mound, did a little leap over it, and ran to the dugout. "He does that every time," Bird said. "Why?" "Says it brings him luck. He is so superstitious. He won't wash his game socks as long as the team is winning." "Ew! And he didn't want to work in a fertilizer plant?" "I know. Go figure.

Obviously, he didn't think I understood the whole ritual scene, and in truth, I didn't. I mean, sure, when I played softball, I always chewed cinnamon-flavored gum during the game, and I never started chewing until after the national anthem. But that was different. If I didn't do that, I missed way more balls than I caught. But home runs? There was nothing that guaranteed home runs.

You know what this means, don't you?" Bird said. "That we're ahead two to nothing?" "It means he'll insist you sit in this exact spot for every game. He'll think this is the good luck spot." "No way." "Either that, or he'll ask you not to wash your underwear.

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

Ancestor worship is not alone the exotic preoccupation of quaint people mired in superstition in some remote corner of the world. Larger-than-life evidence of its industrialized-world variants can be seen in virtually every public park in America.

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

Black cats. They kill me every time. I can just feel it when I see one. The only thing that gets me is black cats.

I keep my key chain simple because I'm a big believer in luck. And I've heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.