Quotes About Belief

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

All the credit goes to Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Shani Bhagwan and Ganpati. These are the four pillars of my destiny.

I actually had a dream, which I believe is right from God, about My Pillow.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

People will want to say this or that about you, but take it with a pinch of salt.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Sometimes, I pinch myself. Through everything, its about hard work... believing in yourself and in the American dream. Believe that you can make something out of yourself.

I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.

Atheists are pious people.