#doubt

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. ↗

— Dave Barry

#conduct #could #doubt #during #human

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful. The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. Indeed, if anything God is offended when we speak too glibly. Make room in your heart for the angry, defiant and doubting questions. You may find God there as well. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#faith #job #suffering #tragedy #faith

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#civilized man #doubted #first #man #mark

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. ↗

— John Donne

#direct #doubt #earth #element #fire

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. ↗

— Hans Blix

#any #apartheid #because #cold #cold war

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#arms #bear #being #certain #convinced

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asking #assure #doctors #doubted #endeavored

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#doubt #girl #her #i #knew

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#doubt #fundamental #half #half century #last