"I started having doubts right on top of…" — David James Duncan
"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."
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28 Quotes by David James Duncan
David James Duncan has 28 quotes on this site.
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly…
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I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a…
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And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
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Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world…
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The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual…
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out…
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When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the…
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to…
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More Certainty Quotes
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one of 970 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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