Quotes About Narratives

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

The lady in Chicago survived, she told me, through stories. Which is at the core of traditional therapy: retelling the family saga. Talk about it, the old wisdom says, and you get better. From narratives about childhood, this woman manufactured a self, neither cut off from her past nor mired in it.

Stories can and will elicit emotional responses and are excellent ways to break the ice and immediately connect with one another.

Stories are used in every setting, all around the world. They are the backbone to all new relationships, spreading the word about great ideas and keeping listeners entertained.

It is about something much larger -the pernicious prevalence and insidious ubiquity of traditional narratives that justify invasion, conquest and inequality.

All we have is compassion and stories.

At about the same time that apologies began to be written, Christians started producing accounts of their persecutions and the martyrdoms that happened as a result of them.

In fact, the Gospels disagree on nearly every detail in their resurrection narratives.

a one-sentence definition of an entire literary genre, but if I were to take a stab for "apocalypses," it would be something like this: apocalypses are first-person narratives of highly symbolic visionary experiences that reveal heavenly secrets to explain earthly realities.

any stories in the Gospels that do not coincide with what we know the early Christians would have wanted to say about Jesus, or indeed, any stories that seem to run directly counter to the Christians' self-interests in telling them, can stake a high claim to being historically accurate.

people tend to condense the origin stories of their best ideas into tidy narratives, forgetting the messy, convoluted routes to inspiration that they actually followed.

The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

las historias entretienen, transmiten conocimientos, expresan verdades, señalan posibilidades y potencialidades más allá de las formas normales de actuar

En los relatos de mamá, de la abuela, de la tía, estaban los grandes almacenes de historias. Sus voces han formado mi sintaxis, mis frases escritas no son más largas que el aliento que se precisa para pronunciarlas".

We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present.

Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Many Americans are eagerly watching the devolution of traditional news with relish because they agree with the prevailing narratives, whether based on true facts or imagined fiction.

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think that we need to allow for a lot more stories to be told.