Doubt Quotes - Page 23

• In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Passion, Conceited, Men

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Mind, Age

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.380, Penguin UK

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• I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.361

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• If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered

  Dan Millman

  Opponents, Faces, Just One

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• I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

  Catherine Tate

  Needs, Nagging, Anxious

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Acting, Film

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

  Charlie Cox

  Self, Stem, Self Deprecating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Catholic Religion, World, Uniting

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Government, House, Done

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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• So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Eye, Angel

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Acting

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• Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

  Lee Child

  Character, Evil, Novelists

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• Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

  Peter Straub

  Character, Men, Vices

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Player, Way

  "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.

  Jean Rhys

  Running, Morning, Adventure

  Jean Rhys (2017). “The Collected Short Stories”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

  George W. Bush

  Disappointment, Humor, Political

  Speech at Annual National Prayer Breakfast, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Religious, Humor

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• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Europe

  Radio address from Moscow (November 6, 1941). Vital Speeches of the Day, p. 102, December 1, 1941.

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• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Suffering, Would Be

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Gold, Causes, Wheels

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• War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

  Jon Anderson

  War, Men, People

  "Interview with former Yes front man Jon Anderson (Part One)". examiner.com, January 27, 2011.

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• Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

  Zakk Wylde

  Player, Guitar, Vans

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• I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

  Markus Zusak

  Home, Holiday, Different

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

  Robin Pecknold

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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