I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.] — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed… — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
