Quotes About Doubt

Sometimes I'm gullible; sometimes I'm not.

I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.

When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don't have the habit of playing.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

I don't think I could hack it in the 200m.

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

You know, I have been thinking about this a lot, and of course I had great stress during all this election campaign. And a lot of times, I was ready to step away because I wasn't sure that I had enough strength to continue.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

Sometimes I really believe in something and I'll always take it up to God... cuz I always meet God halfway.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

If you can't trust your can open, then what?

If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?

Anna: I've never understood all this devotion. Mouse: Don't you know? They all called me Mouse. But you were they only one who didn't believe it.

Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers. "Yes," snapped the Carp.

So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. —Matthew 14:29

What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.

But then, the Holy Spirit came to me, and I was reminded of something Saint Augustine said: 'Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.