#superstitious

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. ↗

— John Selden

#am #black #colors #i #i am

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#calamity #comes #death #doubts #feared

Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#every #every time #feet #fly #going

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #full-moon #habits #harvests #life

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#like #same #superstitious #two #two weeks

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#give #hopefully #i #luck #night

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#assaulted #being #centuries #christianity #distinguished

The Jewish part of me is superstitious. ↗