Pastoral Resources

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.