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
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Hence the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; Hence, it is justly regarded… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is… — Tayari Jones 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
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
“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
“You’re superstitious?” His rough voice echoes above our heads, so he leans in closer and says, “I didn’t really see that coming.”… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder 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 superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious. — Kate Hudson 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
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. The feeling that is called "eerie" came upon him. He” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a… — McKayla Maroney Copy Share Image
I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to… — Mark Occhilupo Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
In "Mother-Father-God," I talk about how the new thought movement led me to be superstitious. I think that might resonate with a… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
“In parts of the country you will come across superstitious practices, such as lowering a infant with whooping cough into a cesspit… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
