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

• It was so new to us before, we used to all go rock & roll. Now we're more into getting on with our lives individually, not hanging out every moment. We all know what we like to do. If I want to go to the gym, I'll ring Phil. If I want to go to a bar, I'll ring Sav.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Moment
  • Gym
  • I Want

• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Movie
  • Singing
  • Goal

• The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Church
  • Assault
  • Globe

• In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Different
  • Medical
  • Marijuana

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

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Stories
  • Flesh
  • Catechism