#doubt

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#faith #life #death

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. ↗

— George Eliot

#self-doubt #life

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#benefit #criminals #dead #doubt #impartially

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. ↗

— James Madison

#cannot #capacity #doubted #erudition #female

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#around #baseball #baseball players #been #doubt

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#down #every #gold #i #i think

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#both #doubt #easily #everything #life

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed. ↗

— Jody Watley

#drive #fuel #i #music #my own

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#doubt #enjoyed #had #having #help

I bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going to give it to him after all, but there's no going back now. She has to. "At the bookstore." She reaches into her bag again, and pushes the package across the table towards him. Guy takes the book out of the bag slowly, Willow waits for him to look disappointed, to look confused that she would buy him such a battered, old- "I love it when used books have notes in the margins, it's the best," Guy says as he flips through the pages. "I always imagine who read it before me." He pauses and looks at one of Prospero's speeches. "I have way too much homework to read this now, but you know what? Screw it. I want to know why it's your favorite Shakespeare. Thank you, that was really nice of you. I mean, you really didn't have to." "But I did anyway," Willow says so quietly she's not even sure hears her. Hey," Guy frowns for a second. "You didn't write anything in here." "Oh, I didn't even think...I, well, I wouldn't even know what to write," Willow says shyly. "Well, maybe you'll think of something later," he says. Willow watches Guy read the opening. There's no mistaking it. His smile is genuine, and she can't help thinking that if she can't make David look like this, at least she can do it for someone. ↗

— Julia Hoban

#friendship #gift #gracious #imperfect #personalization