One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
~By Lewis Cass ~
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
~By Alec Waugh ~
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
~By Elia Kazan ~
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
~By Augustus Hare ~
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.
~By Li Peng ~
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
~By I. F. Stone ~
Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
~By James Payn ~
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
~By Elias Canetti ~
If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
~By James H. Boren ~
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
~By Queen Victoria ~
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
~By Owen Glendower ~
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
~By Roland Allen ~
I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
~By Paul Bettany ~
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
~By Renee Vivien ~
Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.
~By Ethan Embry ~
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
~By Marge Piercy ~
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
~By Vicente Fox ~
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
~By Larry King ~
The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.
~By Girma Woldegiorgis ~
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
~By Martin van Creveld ~
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
~By Hart Crane ~
I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
~By John McCain ~
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
~By John Oates ~
Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
~By Mark Twain ~
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
~By Dick Cheney ~
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
~By James H. Breasted ~
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
~By Frank Shorter ~
There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
~By Rene Descartes ~
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
~By Learned Hand ~
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
~By Joseph Glanvill ~
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
~By Herbert Read ~
My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice.
~By Tom Felton ~
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
~By Inge de Bruijn ~
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~By Sallust ~
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.
~By Dean Koontz ~
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
~By Francis Quarles ~
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
~By John Lubbock ~
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
~By George Sutherland ~
I'm not going to doubt my life.
~By Yoko Ono ~
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
~By Lactantius ~
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
~By Patricia Velasquez ~
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.
~By William Whipple ~
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
~By Joseph Butler ~
When in doubt, punt!
~By John Heisman ~
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
~By Origen ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
~By Joanna Trollope ~
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
~By Maria Monk ~
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
~By James W. Black ~
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