Quotes About Doubt

You don't seem the type to be afraid," you say. "That's appearances for ya," she says.

How was it possible to be with someone and yet feel so utterly alone? How was it possible to be with someone as wonderful, warm and kind as Andrew and yet still wonder if love would ever find you?

All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of  a good reason not to be with him

and although he doubted they would try anything that drastic again,

Most grandiose gestures are suspect—the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab.

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession.

But what if it's a trap?' she repeated. Joe gave her a hard stare.'Of course it's a fucking trap,' he said.

I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...

Do I look like I could have thrown a goddamn piano out a window?" She waved her hand. "Does he?

Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...

Why didn't he show up?

He thought maybe she was having second thoughts. Rightly so, considering what he planned to do to her.

You hear it, too?" Walter asked. "Of course I do," she snapped. "It's real!

Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!

She was doubtful, amid our toxic swirl of new namegiving; what she doubted was the reality of names, though she had to deal with them; she certainly felt that naming is seldom accurate, name and thing coincide only for a short time. She shrank from stamping any name on herself, the brand mark which decides which herd you belong to and which stable you should occupy.

Resurrected from the dead. If miracles could happen, this was one of them; but we no longer knew the right way to accommodate a miracle. We hardly realized that a miracle can be met other than with broken phrases and mocking looks.

Maybe he's finally seeing what he lost." "Maybe." All of Harper's doubts were in that word. "Anyway, I've got to say he's the cutest cop I've ever seen." Bonnie handed her the change. "Me, too." Harper gave her a melancholy smile. "But, I broke him last year and I don't know how to fix him.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

For nine months of the year were trivial miseries, self-doubts, indecisions, and all those disgusts of preadolescence, when the body is dirty, the world a misfit, the moral sense qualmish, and the mind a sump of doubt: but three months of the year she lived in trust, confidence, and love.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.