Quotes About Story

Photography is a love affair with life.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

So, set 'em up, Joe,I've got a little story you oughta know.We're drinking, my friend,To the end of a brief episode,Make it one for my babyAnd one more for the road.

The human genome is a life written in a book where every word has been written before. A story endlessly rehearsed.

I know this isn't a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn't even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.

Ascolta, magari questa storia ci costringerà a prendere delle decisioni.

Is everything a story to you?" Harry called after her. "Absolutely!" came Olive's voice. "I'm a librarian, dear!

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Both Lincoln and King were appealing to the story—the best story—we tell about ourselves. That our story begins with Americans falling short of the ideals embedded in the Founding is not an indictment of the ideals; it is testament to the nobility of America's story arc.

You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. The life story is not the work of a historian [...]; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations and interpretations that might or might not be true to the spirit of what happened.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. Everyone loves a good story; every culture bathes its children in stories. Among the most important stories we know are stories about ourselves, and these "life narratives" are McAdams's third level of personality.

The whole paper was you." "Shit don't write itself." "This one story, who was the source?" "Same source I always used. Middle third of a joint." I smiled.

The data tell a clear story: families leave poverty in great numbers, and they enter poverty in great numbers. Only a small share lives in poverty for long periods.

What Genesis is, in fact, is philosophy written in a deliberately non-philosophical way. It deals with all the central questions of philosophy: what exists (ontology), what can we know (epistemology), are we free (philosophical psychology), and how we should behave (ethics). But it does so in a way quite unlike the philosophical classics from Plato to Wittgenstein. To put it at its simplest: philosophy is truth as system. Genesis is truth as story.

Torah is God's book of humanity, and each of us is a chapter in its unfinished story.

So, for instance, the law of the red heifer – purification from contact with the dead – occurs just before the death of Miriam and Aaron, as if to say: Bereavement and grief interfere with our contact with God but this does not last forever. We can become pure again. The story explains the law, and the law illuminates the story.

Memory is my story, the past that made me who I am, of whose legacy I am the guardian for the sake of generations yet to come. Without memory, there is no identity, and without identity, we are mere dust on the surface of infinity.

The message of the story of Balaam as a whole is this: God saves Israel from its enemies but even God cannot save Israel from itself. To be defended by the Holy One, Israel must be holy, and that includes – as Leviticus insists in chapters 18 and 20 – a strict sexual ethic. Lose that and the nation will lose everything.

This prominence of the kingdom also orients the reader to understand that the macarisms and other wisdom being offered by the Sage Jesus in the Sermon are more than generalized, universal, human wisdom. Rather, these references to the kingdom of heaven set Jesus's teaching into the context of the Jewish story of God's reign and particularly the Jewish expectation of its eschatological consummation,53 its coming from heaven to earth.

There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.