All Quotes

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
‐‐ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
‐‐ Jimmy Griffin

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
‐‐ Jules Verne

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?
‐‐ Jules Verne

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
‐‐ Giovanni Ribisi

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
‐‐ John Banville

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.
‐‐ Josh Klinghoffer

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
‐‐ Paul A. Volcker

'Double Indemnity' is one of my all time favorites. That's my favorite.
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
‐‐ Owen Hart

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
‐‐ George Orwell

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
‐‐ Benjamin Jowett

Doubt grows with knowledge.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
‐‐ Charles Sanders Peirce

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
‐‐ Voltaire

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
‐‐ Alain Rene Le Sage

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is the brother of shame.
‐‐ Erik Erikson

Doubt is the father of invention.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
‐‐ Suzy Kassem

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
‐‐ Steve Albini

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
‐‐ Albert Pike

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
‐‐ Chace Crawford

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
‐‐ Nancy Lopez

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi