I Quotes
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“I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.”
“I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.”
Source: Don't Mind If I Do
“I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.”
“I doubt Dereck Chisora can knock me out.”
“I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.”
Source: Shades of Blood
“I doubt evolution is real.”
“I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.”
“I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.”
“I doubt I could get a tan anyway. I love pyjamas.”
Source: Big Bones
“I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
“I doubt I'm the only one in this field exasperated by people who claim that their variety of farming is the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds. I've seen farmers who set out with high ideals gradually becoming hucksters, overlooking the drawbacks of their practice, exaggerating the advantages, subordinating their intellects to their interests. The people I'm drawn to are those, like Tolly, with a capacity for self-correction, who recognize the flaws in what they do and seek to address them.”
Source: Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
“I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.”
Source: Asylum 54.0
“I doubt I will ever like anyone else in the world as much as I like you.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.”
“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”
“I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.”
“I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!”
“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.”
“I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.”
“I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.”
“I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...”
“I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.”
Source: On Education
“I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.”
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.”
Source: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
“I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.”
“I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.”
“I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.”
Source: Villette
“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.”
Source: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929
“I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.”
“I doubt if in the landscape there can be anything finer than a distant mountain-range. They are a constant elevating influence.
Henry David Thoreau”
Source: Frankie, Nancy and Rose on the Mountain
“I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.”
“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”
“I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.”
“I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.”
Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.”
Source: Stormy Petrel
“I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.”
Source: Tales from the White Hart
“I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.”
“I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.”
“I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.”
“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”
“I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.”
“I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.”
“I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.”
“I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.”
Source: Green Dolphin Street
“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five”
“I doubt it is your style
Not to get what you set out to acquire
The eyes are on fire
You are the unforecasted storm
Brianstorm”