Quotes About Narratives

Historier har aldrig nogen slutning, Meggie" havde han engang sagt til hende, "selvom bøgerne gerne vil bilde os det ind. Historierne går altid videre, de slutte lige så lidt på den sidste side, som de begynder på den første.

They had exchanged sad stories, although both of them longed for one with a happy ending.

The world around them was as still as if it had used up all the words, as if all the tales there were to tell in this world had now been told.

That Jesus is popular in Mark 2:2, however, is not a general model for Christian ministry; the rest of Mark itself shows that eventually crowds denounced Jesus (15:13–14). From these narratives we might learn to use any popularity for good at the moment but not to count on it enduring.

Knowing when to stand firm on principle or when to find common ground with your fellow citizens is the most important, and also the most difficult, activity in a democracy. There's no simple formula for it. That is why it is so useful to have narratives...

We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going – blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

The most important unacknowledged narrators in modern fiction are the third-person "centers of consciousness" through whom authors have filtered their narratives.

The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives.

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well.

Heaven does not tell stories of oppressed peoples.

Even a cursory reading of the Bible is sufficient to recognize that the Bible is a treasury replete with a wide variety of literary styles, ranging from poetry and psalms to historical narratives, didactic epistles, and apocalyptic revelations. To dogmatically assert that the Bible was written in parables and that those who read it literally must be "idiots" is a serious misunderstanding of the literal principle of biblical interpretation.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

The easy danger of stories, their adhesive allure.

But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish.

There are some stories you never get to finish.

Stories retold are stories remade.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.