Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I am always in doubt; I am never sure of myself.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Some of the things I've said, I don't even agree with.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

You do doubt yourself and question yourself. You go from massive highs and confidence boosters - when I was in New York I was buzzing around the place - to really doubting yourself and questioning everything about your personality.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.