I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation. — Finneas Copy Share Image
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology. — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It's not like I got caught masturbating, for chrissake; she doesn't know me, why the hell would she care if I'm superstitious?… — S.D. Perry Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Cutting your nails on Friday the 13th is again a bad omen and can bring you some serious bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is more helpful to think of dreams as reflections of the present rather than as pictures of the future. A dream… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“She came back to me at 10.01 the next morning, a mirror time, as I'd expected.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image