“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"The Microbe"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist
Address III, Delivered at the opening of the Hall of Science, New York, Sunday, April 26, 1829
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
Brian Wilson (1942) American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
God Only Knows (co-written with Tony Asher) · 1966 Beach Boys performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpd4jzKA4SA · David Bowie performance (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOadV_CPT_k&spfreload=1 · Brian Wilson and The Corrs at Buckingham Palace (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMGE9cPwmk · "The Impossible Orchestra" — BBC multi-star performance (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo · Brian Wilson and She & Him : "On The Island" + "God Only Knows" (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruOAvMRjhs <br class="br">Pet Sounds (1966)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Letter to James C. Conkling (1863)
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
Powell told David Frost in a BBC television interview <br class="br">Quoted in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006) <br class="br">2000s
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America