Doubt Quotes - Page 13

• More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.

  Ty Burr

  Kings, Brilliant, Luther

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• To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

  Charles Baudouin

  Long, Trying, East

  Charles Baudouin (1945). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”

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• There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  Elia Kazan

  Organization, Police, Hollywood

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Lying, Giving, Should

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Practice, Ongoing, Movement

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• Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

  Pierre Bayle

  Doctors, Wrath, People

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• It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

  Bob Costas

  Baseball, Confused, Thinking

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• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Office, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Steps, Wonder

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• Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

  Langston Hughes

  Christian, Atheism, Church

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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• I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Atheism, Asking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.358, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

  Chris Osgood

  Hockey, Winning, Years

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• Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

  Harold Lasswell

  Mind, Atheism, Dogma

  Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.

  Richard Leakey

  Atheism, Lucky, Stories

  Interview, content.time.com. April 11, 1999.

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Party, Thinking

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

  David Hoffman

  Thinking, Doors, Wind

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Thinking, No Doubt

  "An evening with Richard II". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

  Tina Weymouth

  People, Giving, Benefits

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Views, Together, Trouble

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• There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.

  Chris Rock

  Gay, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

  John Zorn

  Way, Knows, No Doubt

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

  Kevin Spacey

  Matter, Way, Film

  "Q&A – A Conversation With Casino Jack’s Kevin Spacey". www.amc.com. December 2010.

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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