#doubt

Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#salmon-of-doubt #spanish

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #defense #evidence #guilt #innocence

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? ↗

— David Sedaris

#humor #self-doubt #self-worth #humor

Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts - "So what? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#doubt #fear #richelle #richelle-goodrich #so-what

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life #perception #view #home

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #optimism #survival #humor

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#hamlet #hesitation #humor #jeeves #shakespeare

As a captain whose vessel is about to crash on the rocks empties its souls of doubt, so are the hesitant useful for throwing off of an enterprise nearing its end: blame must be cast in failure, profits divided easily in success. ↗

— Bauvard

#doubt #enterprises #failure #funny #hesitancy

How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go? ↗

— Metallica

#doubt #lost #nowhere #death

If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as grace. We are created by being destroyed. ↗

— Franz Wright

#doubt #faith #life #ptsd #death