Quotes About Telling

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

it's only thinking. Your pardon if I err.) i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell

it would bring good luck. It was a silverfish with gold-threaded scales and when she put it in the palm of my hand, I felt it spring backward as if it was a real fish, something telling in it.

An interview, then, is a moment in a relationship between times: the time of the events, the time of the telling, and, when we factor in the archive, the time of listening.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.

Repeat it," Upton commanded me. I repeated it. "A little malignant spirit," Wolfe said. "He not only had the pleasure of perturbing Mrs. Valdon; there was the added fillip of telling Miss Mardus what he had done.

We bring God glory by telling others about him.

The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.

Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting — very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren't even counted yet — but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.

Morality isn't an economy. Spending time telling others how wrong they are doesn't buy you righteousness

This is not to say I don't feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It's just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

migrants are like blown-open grenades, telling their anguish compulsively to everyone they meet, dispensing their pain like shrapnel so they might one day wake to find their burdens have grown lighter.

What happens in stories is what happens in stories: the telling and retelling simplify and reduce. History gets written in the wind that keeps blowing; if it's not too strong you don't even notice it. The lights are bright and there's so much shouting and scrambling.

the real value of stories isn't what's written down on the card. It comes from what we learn when we tell the story.

Life is a storybook. Our stories depend on what happens and what doesn't; what we know and what we don't; what we forget and why. That's what makes telling the truth so tricky. Because the past never stays still: it keeps changing into the future.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.