Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
Quotes about incredulity (13 Quotes)
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.àWe know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.
In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.
And yes, he did give one to the flier guy on Canal Street the episode underscores exactly the fluidity of an object's worth that Powers is playing with, although in this case it did not quite work out in his favor. Flier guy's boss liked the coat and suggested that maybe he would buy a second one. Powers explained the cost. The man expressed incredulity, with a bit of profanity. This is my coat, ... I'll charge what I want for it.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other wayin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.