Quotes About Story

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

What she tells the Japanese is this lost opportunity which has made her what she is. The story she tells of this lost opportunity literally transports her outside herself and carries her toward this new man. To give oneself, body and soul, that's it.

Ils sont morts ensemble. Cent mètres à faire. Se coucher. Faire tenir les enfants tranquilles. Les endormir peut-être avec des chansons. Le train s'est arrêté dit-on. Voilà, c'est ça l'histoire.

Then the girl spoke to the child. She told him she'd rather it remain this way between them. That she'd rather their story not move from this place, even if the child didn't understand her; that it remain in this desire, even if that meant she put herself to death. Not a real death, mind you, but a dead death, where you don't hurt, where you're never sad, you're never punished, nothing. She said, 'It should be completely impossible.' She said, 'It should be desperate.

Death came before the end of his story. When he was still alive it had already happened.

Anlatt???m öykü gibi sürüyle öykü vard?r, dedi. Herhalde onu yanl?? deÄŸerlendiriyorsun. -Nedeni öykü deÄŸil, dedim, biraz klasik bile say?l?r bu öykü. Hafifçe alayl? gülümsedi... -Peki öyleyse? -Öyküyle ilgisi yok. Çok yorucu bir ÅŸey bu...ondan...

Soms laat ons die dinge wat vir ons die heiligste is in ander se sorg. Wanneer ons dit deel, leef die verhaal voort, ná ons en ons tyd. 'n Daad van geloof en liefde.

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. The Baglioni are true believers, he said. They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God.

Eso era la historia, una rama de la fabulación que pretendía ser ciencia.

Por lo menos, confiesa que te he dado tema para una novela. ¿No, niño bueno?

Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.

Overigens past die bijnaam uitstekend bij je. Niet in denigrerende zin, maar letterlijk. Dat ben je, mon vieux, ook al vind je het niet leuk: een brave jongen.' 'Weet je dat het een prachtige liefdesgeschiedenis is?' riep Elena uit, terwijl ze me verbaasd aankeek. 'Want au fond is het dat: een prachtige liefdesgeschiedenis. Deze zwartkijker van een Belg heeft nooit op die manier van me gehouden. Zij boft maar.

I think I've heard this story before. He died alone? Everyone dies alone.

There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Never mind that this fellow had been busy that morning shooting scores of people in cold blood,9 the image alone told a simpler, more brutal story, one brandished enthusiastically by the war's opponents.

What is memory but a story about how we have lived?

The Bible must not be read as a job description for motivated, self-disciplined, devoutly religious people to be their own heroes and saviors of their souls. It must be read as the story of guilty sinners and self-righteous hypocrites, visited by a perfect God

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

In a thousand years, Alessandro said, this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on. What good is that? It isn't to our advantage, if that's what you mean. However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment.

The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.