Quotes About Doubt

He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

That's what he said. So if she could see him across the road, that means her eyesight was perfectly good. She made up the whole thing.

He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.

being published. But I'd known Alan Conway for eleven years, or I thought I had, and I found it almost impossible to believe that he could have produced this, all four hundred and twenty pages of it. It was as if he was whispering to me as I lay there in the darkness, telling me something I didn't want to hear.

I didn't sleep well that night. I'm used to bad writing. I've looked at plenty of novels that have no hope of being published. But I'd known Alan Conway for eleven years, or I thought I had, and I found it almost impossible to believe that he could have produced this, all four hundred and twenty pages of it. It was as if he was whispering to me as I lay there in the darkness, telling me something I didn't want to hear.

What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?

warned him against your play. I said that it was too peculiar for a modern audience and that nobody would understand what you were trying to get at. Is it a comedy? Is it a thriller? What is it, exactly? But he had complete faith in you, and now you turn up with your detective friend and cast aspersions on a man who is absolutely blameless and wouldn't dream of hurting anyone.

It could have happened like that.' Why did Hawthorne have to sound so unsure when it was perfectly obvious to me?

there could be no doubt of that. They were betting on how long a fighter could last against him.

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

Akira Anno is Mark Belladonna, isn't she! Mark doesn't exist.' He rounded on Akira. 'You wrote those stupid books.

I never believe everything anyone says.' 'Including me?' He smiled. 'Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

she's trying another tack. 'Do you really believe

even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

In a small way, I'm driven by proving people wrong: because of the background I come from, I think a lot of people have doubted that I would get this far.

There's always going to be obstacles and people that doubt you. So it's about proving people wrong and bettering yourself and trying to be the best you.

Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has scored the most goals in the league, even though some doubted him. He has proved everyone wrong. I am trying to go down that path myself, proving every doubter wrong.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.