I Quotes
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“I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead.”
“I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.”
“I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.”
“I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.”
“I doubt she deserved the amount of hatred I directed at her, but I loathed just about everybody back then.”
Source: Eileen
“I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.”
“I doubt she'll welcome you if I tell her you undressed me."
"Maybe she'll only partially welcome me."
Smart-ass.”
Source: Poison Princess
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties.”
Source: The Sea of Tranquility
“I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.”
“I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.”
“I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.”
“I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.”
“I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.”
“I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.”
“I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.”
“I doubt that I would have been successful in my career and happy in my personal life if I hadn't prioritized health and fitness. Staying active ensures mental preparedness and the courage to try new things. It helped me to stay focused on work but also to have fun and try new approaches and explore new places. That's the spirit behind Virgin Sport - we wanted to introduce fitness activities that are enjoyable, accessible and part of your overall lifestyle.”
“I doubt that mankind can completely stop sinning. Otherwise, repentance will lose its true meaning.”
“I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.”
“I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.”
“I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.”
“I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.”
“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.”
“I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.”
“I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts, or were the work of purely one person. In my world, the actors and the director are all made of paper, and they do exactly what I say. I feel much more in control of the finished work. I feel like the statement that I'm making - even though it's in a medium by no means as glamorous or as widely recognized as film - is at least the statement that I wanted to make. That's a lot more important to me than the allure of working for Hollywood.”
“I doubt that there are no Communists in the US State Department, I wonder, I don't understand that the Americans go along with the Russians and then say they voted reluctantly, so to speak.”
“I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.”
“I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.”
“I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.”
Source: La frantumaglia
“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.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'”
“I doubt there's any significance in a second-to-last breath.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.”
“I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'”
Source: Speak
“I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.”
Source: Embrace
“I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.”
“I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.”
“I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.”
“I doubt very much that the lengths of wood we nail together into a frame could be considered up to code, but we do the best we can. I suspect they will take it all apart and start over as soon as we are gone, but it looks good on camera since Jesus was a carpenter. Daddy would say that segments like this lend an air of humility to the show, but he says it while wearing a three-hundred-dollar tie, so I'm not entirely sure he knows what the word humility really means.”
Source: The Book of Essie
“I doubt very much that there is any creativity in the world apart from contemplation. In contemplation we catch a vision of not only what is, but what can be. We find our place in salvation history.
Contrary to what we have thought, contemplatives are the great doers. Contemplatives return from times of withdrawal with inner clarity and with direction. In their return from the silence, they take up the work of giving from to the liberating truths that have been given to them in flashes of insight and vision. They are also the great enablers of others. They evoke spirit in those they meet. Because they have been present to themselves, they are able to be present to others in a way that awakens, enlivens, gives courage. In them we see more clearly a way of existence that combines both being and doing.”
Source: Search for Silence
“I doubt we'll be normal. But I think we'll be happy.”
Source: Splinters of the Heart
“I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings”
Source: The wars
“I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.”
“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”