Quotes About Story

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.

Because we are all connected, we are meant to share our "story" with the world. It strengthens both the story teller and the listener.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

We read to find the end, for the story's sake. We read not to reach it, for the sake of the reading itself. We read searchingly, like trackers, oblivious of our surroundings. We read distractedly, skipping pages. We read contemptuously, admiringly, negligently, angrily, passionately, enviously, longingly.

What the poet tells us is that, after the ordeals and adventures, after the revelation and the loss, the king must do two things: preserve the splendor of his city and tell his own story. Both tasks are complementary: both speak of the intimate connection between building a city of walls and building a story of words, and both require, in order to be accomplished, the existence of the other.

The identity of the city, because of the laws that define it, depends on some sort of banning or exclusion. The individual identity required the reverse: a constant effort of inclusion, a story reminding Gilgamesh that, in order to know who one is, we need two .

Lui diceva: "Non sei fregato veramente finché hai da parte una buona storia, e qualcuno a cui raccontarla".

Una luce è giusto uno spicchio di una storia. Se c'è una luce che è come lei, ci sarà anche un rumore, un angolo di strada, un uomo che cammina, molti uomini, una donna sola, cose del genere. Non si fermi alla luce, pensi a tutto il resto, pensi a una storia. Riesce a capire che esiste da qualche perte, e che se lei la trovasse, quello sarebbe il suo ritratto?

se convierte en historia aquello que los humanos no saben que piensan hasta que no logran producirlo para sí mismos, sintetizarlo y nombrarlo en forma de acontecimiento histórico.

No estás jodido verdaderamente mientras tengas una buena historia a cuestas y alguien a quién contársela.

Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.

Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?

Her engagement? That is a long story." He laughed

The History of the Village of Goryukhino

best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.

My Story of the War