N.D. Wilson Quotes

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

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• When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Power
  • Words
  • Vibratory

• The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Important
  • Money
  • Revolution

• Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Effects

• I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Thinking
  • Legislation

• Without education, confidence does not come.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Doe

• Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • Trust
  • Healing
  • Primal

• Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

  

  C.J. Sansom
  • World
  • Family
  • Hope

• Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Character
  • Together
  • Emotional

• No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Ideas
  • Literature
  • Stories

• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Stories
  • Flesh
  • Catechism