Quotes About Belief

It is that bizarre thing. If I had kids, I, of course, would tell them there's Santa, but it's also just an odd feeling to be blatantly lying to kids.

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.

I'm of the opinion that it flies in the face of reason not to believe. The odds are too great against you to not believe that there is some sort of extraterrestrial life out there.

I believe in astrology. I really go off of energy.

I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.

In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy needs to be offensive, and I don't believe it needs to be a mockery of anything.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.