Disbelief Quotes - Page 9

• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

  Melissa Bank

  Real, Love Is, Suspension

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin

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• Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Atheist, People, Church

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• Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Twists, Legs

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.143, Scholastic Inc.

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• The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

  Tao Lin

  Feelings, Notable, Amount

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• You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look away from his body. "But it's solid oak." "I know." She felt the solid oak beneath her and a little shocked that she'd done it, too. If it mattered at all, her shoulder felt a little bruised. And it was the slight pain that brought some reality back into the moment. "You don't have any clothes on." Oh, God, did she really say that?

  C.C. Hunter

  Pain, Reality, Doors

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• For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise to disbelief then hope and sheer, utter joy all within a split second of each other, then he let loose a huge whoop of delight and swept me into his arms, hugging me fiercely.

  Keri Arthur

  Views, Expression, Joy

  Keri Arthur (2010). “Moon Sworn: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.322, Dell

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• Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Men, Expression, Waiting

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• There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Numbness, Over You, Feelings

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• I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

  Carl Jung

  Cautious, Be Cautious

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• As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Philosophy, Believe, Law

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• There were successful ways of expressing the attitude and less successful ways. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually. That's what a certain generation of curators is alert to or on the look out for: an attitude. And it is a brilliant and moving spectacle when it happens. That suspension of disbelief is something that we all respond to. But it's hard to capture the butterfly without tearing the wings off of it.

  David Salle

  Attitude, Moving, Butterfly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Fun, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Belief, Torture, Martyr

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• A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

  Jethro Tull

  Friendship, Angel

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• Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Democracy, Equal

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• Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.

  Lobsang Rampa

  Believe, Firsts, Useless

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• Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

  Peter Mayle

  Two, Irritation, Joy

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Jun 30, 2013

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• Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

  August Wilson

  Belief, Bigger, Belief In Yourself

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• A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

  Po Bronson

  Writing, Pieces, Seducing

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• It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Magic, Special

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• In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

  John Allen Paulos

  Order, Opposites, Listening

  "Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs" by Brent Dykes, www.forbes.com. March 31, 2016.

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• What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wise, Hero, Saint

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