Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
– Margaret Atwood
Related Quotes:
- We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-”narrative catechisms. – ND Wilson
- Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST! – Stan Jacobs
- Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
- Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace. – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
- Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world. – Ales Kot
- Mentor Me: …the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect. – Ken Poirot
- When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity. – James Collins
- I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. – Namsoon Kang
- The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). – Dada Bhagwan
- Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas. – Asa Don Brown
- If you force me to pay a debt that is not mine, let me thank you in the afterlife – Vlgame
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. – Daniel Kahneman
- Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. – Daniel Kahneman
- Story should be a descent — the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. – Chuck Wendig
- people don’t really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. – Chester Elijah Branch
- Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it’s mercenary of me, but there it is – Agatha Christie
- When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. – Nicholas Kristof
- Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one’s own truth. – SR Bakshi
- The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt. – Robert Fulghum
- The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious. – Fulton J Sheen
- I’ve fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ bills aren’t it. – DaShanne Stokes
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- You can be RELIGIOUS without being SPIRITUAL or You can be SPIRITUAL without being RELIGIOUS or Both It all depends on your Philosophy. – Constance Chuks Friday
- I don’t assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society. – Abhijit Naskar
- I guess it’s true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. – CJ Anderson
- Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins… – T Rafael Cimino
- We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people. – Mark Driscoll
- He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god. – Henning Mankell
- You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. – Eugene H Peterson
- We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together. – Trevor D Richardson
- A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway. – Jem JA Belfield
- plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal throughthe compact generations – Jean Cocteau
- We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. – Jayme K
- A book, too, can be a star ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. – Madeleine LEngle
- I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization – simple but explosive. – David W Earle
- Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret. – Glenn Haybittle