Ifs Quote by Nancy Kress Download Open image “Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.” — Nancy Kress ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Jobs Religion Religious Reverence
“A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Most religions offer tremendous patterns of “pushing against” as they scrutinize human behavior looking for evidence of wrongdoing and sin. And often that perceived… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
“all healthy spirituality will always have a truly “sexual” character to it, a desire for re-union. Religion is always, in one sense or another,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.” — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop,… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image