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Doubtful Quotes (page 47)

a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Mark Twain
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me. Mary Oliver
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace. Stephen King
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness Samuel Johnson
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. Albert Camus
Chaim Potok quote: "I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my..."
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. Chaim Potok
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the..."
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Joyce Carol Oates
Jodi Picoult quote: "And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith,..."
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. Jodi Picoult
Diamond Skinner had had no material possessions to his name and yet had been the happiest creature Lou had ever met. He and God would no doubt get along famously. David Baldacci
As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. Douglas Adams
Men think that it is essential that the "Nation" have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, wether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. Henry David Thoreau
David Sedaris quote: "If I could believe in myself, why not give other..."
If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt? David Sedaris
Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is... If your every sentence admits a doubt, your writing will lack authority. William Strunk, Jr.
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt. Orhan Pamuk
Wilson Mizner quote: "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner

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