Quotes About Belief

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there's a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we're seeing goes against what people always believed in.

Growing up, I thought salt belonged in a shaker at the table and nowhere else.

I had no godfather/godmother/filmi family backing me, but I made it only because I just believed in my talent, and my audience reposed their faith in me. So, I always say that my godfather in B-town has been my audience. Without them, I would be nowhere.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature. Yet we are comforted by the aristocratic notion that leadership might run in the bloodlines.

That is part of the problem, that lack of belief in yourself because you don't see success around you. I guess that breeds defeatism, so yes there does need to be resources out there and support that will nurture talent that I believe is there, and passion that I know is there.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

I'm going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I'll just start going nuts on Twitter.

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

Doc Rivers kind of told me I'd be a head coach one day. I just kind of looked at him like he was nuts.