Doubtfully Quotes

#1. Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

Clive Barker

#2. You promise to stop if I say so?" she asked doubtfully, even while she lay down.
"I promise. Though never trust anything a man tells you when he's got his head between your legs.

Anna Campbell

#3. It all began with the word itself. "Grass. Gramina. The family Gramineae. Grasses." "Oh," I responded doubtfully. The picture in my mind was only of a vague area in parks edged with benches for the idle.

Ward Moore

#4. How're we gonna bring the big hag round?" said Big Yan.
"I heard where ye has to put someone's heid between their legs," said Rob doubtfully.
Daft Wullie sighed and drew his sword. "Sounds a wee bit drastic tae me," he said, "but if someone will help me hold her steady-

Terry Pratchett

#5. She glared at him. "I'm not weird like that. I'm good weird. I'm cool weird."
"Yes," he said doubtfully. "Yes, you are.

Derek Landy

#6. Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.

Penelope Farmer

#7. We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm." Will shook his head doubtfully. "He won't like that," he said. Halt turned and looked at him, a faint grin touching the corner of his mouth. He'll hate it," he agreed.

John Flanagan

#8. The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

George Eliot

#9. Spoo looked at the funny little necklace doubtfully. "That's all?"
"And ask if I can have my dress and shoes back, would you? And Mr Lefoux's hat, perhaps?"
Spoo looked scandalised. "I don't think I want to know.

Gail Carriger

#10. Maybe we can hold the windows and doors," Mars said doubtfully. The ruined building was little more than a shell, with no roof and gaping empty rectangles for windows. "But if they charge us ... " "They're charging!" Hel shouted.

Michael Scott

#11. He paused and looked at Frodo doubtfully. 'Have you got it here?' he asked in a whisper. 'I can't help feeling curious, you know, after all I've heard. I should very much like just to peep at it again.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised-looking whale

Douglas Adams

#13. I shouldn't wish to be a tease. To ... lead you on."
He smiled. "That's my look-out, not yours."
She considered that, doubtfully. "There are some men who would disagree."
His smile vanished. "Then they are worthless curs, not men.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#14. Hey, er ... " said Zaphod, "what's your name?"
The man looked at them doubtfully.
"I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It seems very odd to
give a bundle of vague sensory perceptions a name.

Douglas Adams

#15. Hodor?" said Hodor, doubtfully.

Anonymous

#16. 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.

Mercy Otis Warren

#17. Sure how that was going to work, but once I got Boris out of the house I could figure something out. "Please, come on." "Is State Care that bad in America?" said Boris doubtfully.

Donna Tartt

#18. I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.

Hilaire Belloc

#19. Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

Lewis Carroll

#20. Can you - can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. "I can." "Do it, then." Scrooge asked

Charles Dickens

#21. By the known rules of ancient liberty. The word ancient emphasises the fact that intellectual freedom is a deep-rooted tradition without which our characteristic western culture could only doubtfully exist.

George Orwell

#22. Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.

Elaine Pagels

#23. I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

Sam Simon

#24. Eye , gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon's fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses ...

Stephen Spender

#25. How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Will Rogers

#26. We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Stan Getz

#27. Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.

Orson Scott Card

#28. If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

Randall Munroe

#29. I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

Maggie Smith

#30. I pushed. You have a right to push back.

Jaci Burton

#31. Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Adyashanti

#32. Mara leans over and whispers in my ear, I know you're charmingly naive when it comes to matters of the heart, but you just stopped him in his tracks.

Rae Carson

#33. There is no love that appears suddenly out of the blue, because love is a child of culture, not a stone dropped from heaven.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#34. You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

Jeff Foxworthy

#35. I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

Erol Alkan

#36. Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

Elizabeth I