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Quotes About Doubt

There is nothing wrong with doubting yourself, Hermione. Marriage is an enormous undertaking. The biggest choice you will ever make in your life. Once it's done, you can't change your mind.
~ Julia Quinn
Baiting her was great fun. And he didn't feel the least bit guilty for it. For all her disgruntled behavior, he had no doubt that she enjoyed the verbal sparring every bit as much as he did.
~ Julia Quinn
Sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.
~ Julia Quinn
Horace slapped her back, and a week later, Cecilia left for New York. The journey had taken five weeks—more than enough time for Cecilia to second- and third-guess her decision. But she truly did not know what else she could have done. She wasn't sure why Horace was so dead-set on marrying her when he had a good chance of inheriting Marswell anyway.
~ Julia Quinn
The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth.
~ Julia Quinn
She looked at him in askance.
~ Julia Quinn
Beware a woman asking questions. You will never answer correctly.
~ Julia Quinn
when something happens to give you unease—well, you don't seem to know how to manage it. And you run. Or you decide it isn't worth it.
~ Julia Quinn
Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.
~ Julia Quinn
Relax," Edward whispered. Was he mad? There was nothing relaxing about this, nothing that made her want to relax. She wanted to grab and claw and yes, scream as she fought her way to the edge. Except she did not know what that edge was, or what might be on the other side. "Please," she begged, and it didn't even seem to matter that she had no idea what she was begging for. Because he did. Dear God, she hoped he did. If he didn't, she was going to kill him.
~ Julia Quinn
Somehow we have to be able to indicate to our audience that we know how frustrating it is when the answers they are hearing are necessarily the answers that the person speaking them believes.
~ Emily Maitlis
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
~ Trisha Yearwood
An indictment is not a conviction.
~ Howard Coble
Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.
~ Eugene Parker
Nothing is inevitable with relationships.
~ Lorenzo Lamas
I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely - which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump.
~ Ross Douthat
No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Revolutionaries are not infallible.
~ Tariq Ali
I sometimes allow people to infer that I'm much less successful than I am.
~ Laura Lippman
I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.
~ Martie Maguire
There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.
~ Lisa Guerrero
There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn't sure what my future in football was.
~ Chris Long
I've been doubted my whole life, especially coming out of college with the injuries I had.
~ Frank Gore
I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.
~ James Anderson