"Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction." — Gregory Maguire
"Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction."
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Gregory Maguire
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201 Quotes by Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire has 201 quotes on this site.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes,…
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of…
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her…
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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I have the courage of my convictions.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
— Saint Basil
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
— Barbara Boxer
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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