When In Doubt Quotes

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith ... ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Chase, we don't believe that homosexuality is a sin. The Bible was inspired by God, but it was written, translated, and interpreted by imperfect people just like us. This means that the passing of this sacred scripture from generation to generation and from culture to culture has been a bit like the "telephone game" you play at school. After thousands of years, it's impossible to judge the original spirit of some scripture. We believe that when in doubt, mercy triumphs judgment. So your parents are Christians who study and pray and then carefully choose what we follow in the Bible, based on whether or not it matches our understanding of Jesus's overall message. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty. ~ Sarah Vowell

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. ~ Camille Paglia

When in doubt, write it out. If that doesn't work, you're screwed. ~ Moniqua Sexton

When in doubt, bluff. ~ Sarah MacLean

When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition. ~ Ivan M. Granger

When in doubt, try nutrition first. ~ Roger Williams

When In Doubt...Punt! ~ Edward Harris

Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers ... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces. ~ Amy Poehler

When in doubt - make'em laugh. ~ Raymond L. Jones

Rule of thumb: when in doubt, find a marine. ~ Ally Carter

Closets should be completely emptied twice a year. […] Then inspect every item in your wardrobe. Things you're doubtful about are probably wrong. […] Give things away to someone they do compliment, or send them to charity or a thrift shop and resolve not to make the same mistake again.
That old saw, 'When in doubt, don't,' is never so true as when it comes to clothes. Or getting married. ~ Joan Crawford

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored. ~ Brian L. Weiss

When in doubt, exchange. ~ John Zimmerman

When in doubt do the right thing! ~ Carl Andrew Spaatz

When in doubt, do the obvious. ~ Joy Browne

Rhiannon's Law #63: Fake it until you make it. You might not know what the fuck you're doing, but that doesn't mean everyone else is aware of your inaptitude. When in doubt, hold your head high and pretend you have a clue. ~ J.A. Saare

When in doubt, pig out! ~ Jim Davis

When in doubt, go back to sleep. ~ T.K. Toppin

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. ~ Blaise Pascal

When in doubt, ingest carbs. ~ Rachel Cohn

I put a big slab of butter into the pan. The Olekseis didn't give one damn about health, which made them refreshing to cook for, and my motto was pretty much, 'When in doubt, add butter.'
Right now, I was definitely in doubt.
I added more butter. ~ Beth Harbison

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing. ~ Letitia Baldrige

When in doubt, C4! ~ Jamie Hyneman

When in doubt, take a nap, (Secret Ingredient) ~ Christina Waymreen

The best authority to ask when in doubt is the very person involved. ~ Jhinang

When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something. ~ Brian K. Friesen

When in doubt, discuss the weather. Some things never change. ~ Emma Lear

When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black. ~ Meg Cabot

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this ... ' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true. ~ Michael Scott

Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. ~ Raymond Chandler

You are Entering the Red Zone.
Proceed at Own Risk.
When in Doubt Run. ~ Justin Cronin

When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing. ~ Leo Tolstoy

For several stomach-twisting moments, she ran through her list of presocialization reminders: think before you talk (anything and everything can be an insult to someone; when in doubt, say nothing), be nice, sitting on your hands prevents fidgeting and feels good, make eye contact, smile (no teeth, that's scary), don't start thinking about work, don't let yourself talk about work (no one wants to hear about it), please and thank you, apologize with feeling. ~ Helen Hoang

When in doubt, delete it. ~ Phil Crosby

When in doubt, make funny faces. ~ Amy Poehler

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them. ~ Nigel Rees

When in doubt, eat donuts. ~ Larry Kramer

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball' ~ J. R. Smith

Kelly glanced at the freezer as they headed for the steps. "Hey, maybe one of them will donate a liver to your dad."
Nick looked over his shoulder at Kelly, his eyes wide.
"I'm just saying. Three perfectly good livers sitting in there," Kelly said, completely deadpan. "Nobody's using them. I'll go get one for you."
Nick gaped at him. "How the hell did you ever pass your psych evals?"
"I cheated off your papers."
Nick rolled his eyes and started up the stairs.
"The Navy gives bubble tests. When in doubt, go with C."
"Kelly."
"Get it? Navy? The sea?"
"Kels, shut up."
"Oh, come on! You love puns."
Nick laughed, unable to stop himself. ~ Abigail Roux

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain. ~ Voltaire

I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school."
" When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words ~ Bianca Marais

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. ~ Roy Ash

To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people. ~ Dan Eldon

Enemies are always born in your bloodlines. When in doubt always turn your head into your bloodlines. You will definitely find a solution to your problem! ~ Fahad Basheer

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out. ~ Dan Brown

When in doubt, scribble. ~ Jean Wilson

When in doubt, be patient, and watch. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

When people feel threatened and anxious they become more rigid, and when in doubt they tend to become dogmatic; and then they lose their own vitality. They use the remnants of traditional values to build a protective encasement and then shrink behind it; or they make an outright panicky retreat into the past. But ~ Rollo May

When in doubt, choose greatness. ~ Cyril Connolly

When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy . ~ Miguel De Cervantes

When in doubt, wear red. ~ Bill Blass

When in doubt, throw it out. ~ Jeremy Jackson

When in doubt, shut up. ~ Caroline B. Cooney

When in doubt, use brute force. ~ Ken Thompson

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it. ~ Victoria Laurie

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. ~ Larry Wall

Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy. ~ Carrie Fisher

When in doubt, err on the side of generosity. ~ Ping Fu

When in doubt, play dead. Well, unless you might be dealing with a ghoul, or a basilisk, or something else that likes its meat a little ripe. Actually, when in doubt, just start shooting. - Alice Healy ~ Seanan McGuire

And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one. ~ Terry Pratchett

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph. ~ Grace S. Richmond

Unbelievable. My mother had the exact same mentality as my friends. When in doubt, be a bitch. ~ Kieran Scott

Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become. ~ Meredith Vieira

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I look down and cringe as I see Lucian's modified boxer shorts. "My panties are too tight," I say defensively. "It was either these or nothing at all." "And you picked the first option?" She shakes her head. "When in doubt, go commando. ~ Sydney Landon

When in doubt, go for the dick joke. ~ Robin Williams

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. ~ Josh Billings

When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts. ~ F.T. McKinstry

When in doubt, call for back-up. ~ Maya Banks

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries. ~ Ayn Rand

I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.

Only what is that thing? Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.

Because--isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture--? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart."

Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be po ~ Donna Tartt

When in doubt, take more time. ~ John Zimmerman

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up. ~ Diane Schoemperlen

But when in doubt, you might as well keep an open mind. ~ Harlan Coben

When in doubt, vary, change, solve the problem, seize the opportunity, experiment, try something new (consistent, of course, with the core ideology) - even if you can't predict precisely how things will turn out. Do something. If one thing fails, try another. Fix. Try. Do. Adjust. Move. Act. No matter what, don't sit still. ~ Jim Collins

when in doubt 1 talk to to samira ~ Samira

When in doubt, say nothing and move on. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion. ~ Debasish Mridha

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity. ~ Mark Twain

When in doubt, always opt for going naturel rather than hiding your skin under foundation and such. Line your eyes with kohl and mascara, put on some bright lip gloss and pinch your cheeks a little bit to get them all flushed and bright! ~ Genelia D'Souza

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still! ~ Brian Tracy

Inspired action comes from the guidance of Spirit, not ego. When in doubt, don't. Inspired action is responsive, not reactive. ~ Annette Vaillancourt

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time. ~ Nick Bantock

When in doubt, choose kindness. ~ Sue Jacques

The Creed for the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive (Peter's Laws)


1. If anything can go wrong, Fix it!!! (To hell with Murphy!!)
2. When given a choice - Take Both!!
3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
4. Start at the top, then work your way up.
5. Do it by the book... but be the author!
6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
7. If you can't beat them, join them, then beat them.
8. If it's worth doing, it's got to be done right now.
9. If you can't win, change the rules.
10. If you can't change the rules, then ignore them.
11. Perfection is not optional.
12. When faced without a challenge, make one.
13. "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.
14. Don't walk when you can run.
15. Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.
16. When in doubt: THINK!
17. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.
18. The squeaky wheel gets replaced.
19. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
20. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!! ~ Peter Safar

When in doubt, use Caslon. ~ William Caslon

When in doubt, adopt an attitude of curiosity. ~ Joseph Deitch

A roadblock for some is the catch-22 of feeling too amateur to begin. There's a purpose for the phrase 'fake it till you make it'. If you don't have all the pieces in place, act like you do. When in doubt, forge ahead with gay abandon! As I spoke to other successful artists about their early days, a recurring theme was the importance of making work. John Safran described it as 'jamming', while Ghost Patrol likened it to 'playing'. ~ Justin Heazlewood

When in doubt, look to Jesus. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Harry - I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!"
And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
"What does she understand?" said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
"Loads more than I do," said Ron, shaking his head.
"But why's she got to go to the library?"
"Because that's what Hermione does," said Ron, shrugging. "When in doubt, go to the library. ~ J.K. Rowling

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life. ~ Solomon Woytowich

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., ~ Barbara DaCosta

In life all must choose at times. Sometimes, two possibilities are good; neither is evil. Usually, however, one is of greater import than the other. When in doubt, each must choose that which concerns the good of others - the greater law - rather than that which chiefly benefits ourselves - the lesser law. The greater must be chosen whether it be law or thing. That was the choice made in Eden. ~ John Andreas Widtsoe

Be nice. Be crazy. Be yourself. Be the ball. Don't be flat. Just B natural. Be honest. Be humble. Be thankful. Be happy ... but when in doubt, just Be. ~ Cliff Michaels

When in doubt, do some thing outrageous! ~ Ray McManus

When in doubt .....RUN ~ Terry Pratchett

Funny is always a good way to start when in doubt ~ Ocean R Stark