Florence King Quotes

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

I'm not a futurist.

We turn to experts to tell us the future, even though they have not the foggiest idea themselves. It is a practice that goes back thousands of years.

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.