Quotes About Narrative

History does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.

Narrative is the frame upon which we hang selected swaths of experience in order to construct a shelter of meaning.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

Again we are re-minded of the fate of women in patriarchal society. How can we find the truth about their lives when most of the books were written by men?

Il y a des hommes qui ont le pouvoir de raconter des histoires que chacun croit être siennes : ce sont les écrivains. »

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

I told him a story, Calista. People will follow you anywhere if you tell them a tale they desperately want to believe. It's astonishing, really, how gullible even the most skeptical person can be if he or she wants to believe.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My heart, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My story, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.

is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?

Bir insan kendini anlat?rken tarafs?zl?k, ucu yalana ç?kan all? pullu bir yol deÄŸil midir?

But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?

Julius and Raffia were like the sun and the moon. Everything revolved around Julius, or he behaved as though it did, you were drawn into his orbit. But Saffia was the moon, emanating her own clear, magnetic energy. The one to whom all our stories were told.

There can be funny moments during sad stories

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

They will do their best to invalidate your story. If that doesn't work, they will tell you not to tell your story.

The most powerful story is happening inside your customer's head, a personal narrative of how engaging with your product will transform them into a more powerful, more skillful, more connected version of themselves.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

The Passion narrative asks much of us, and it also, through Jesus' example, gives us the knowledge that we can do what we are asked, and the assurance that we will succeed.

Holy Week is a time to think about risk, because that's what this whole Passion narrative represents.

we have no complete narrative of Jesus' life that existed at the time of Paul, and there may have been none. Thus, Paul's epistles demonstrate some knowledge of what Jesus said and did, and Paul did have contact with some of Jesus' original followers such as Peter and John (see Gal 2), but Paul does not appear to know the Gospels

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.