Doubt Quotes - Page 41

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

There is no doubt that we are in crisis at this moment in our history. Most of this comes from our individualistic mind-set. And it is bringing us to the brink of extinction on many levels, but I think there are methods we can use to go beyond our individual beliefs. The main thing is to honor the relationship above being right or proving somebody wrong.

I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if you go in there and have doubt in your mind that you're afraid to get hit, forget it.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.