Quotes About Story

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

We share good news, then, neither to show our neighbors why Christianity is "right" nor to save people from the corrupting influence of other religions, but to name the story that helps us tell the truth about ourselves.

Hij had geprofiteerd van het gemak waarmee je in de grote stad van je 'persoonlijkheid' een goed verhaal kan maken, met kop en staart en een plot die wat te raden overlaat. Identiteit was iets om af te huren, een soort mentale smoking.

People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings

Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is and you should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy. And maybe you don't want it to be.

Adam and Eve don't seem very conscious, at the beginning, when they are first placed in Paradise, and they were certainly not self-conscious. As the story insists, the original parents were naked, but not ashamed.

And the story suggests something more: unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us—in this case, an artificial animal that brings out our own animal instincts in a completely unregulated way. The old Hebrew story makes it clear how the ancients felt about our prospects for civilized behaviour in the absence of rules that seek to elevate our gaze and raise our standards.

Everyone requires a story to structure their perceptions and actions in what would otherwise be the overwhelming chaos of being.

Before the dawn of the scientific worldview, reality was construed differently. Being was understood as a place of action, not a place of things.31 It was understood as something more akin to story or drama. That story or drama was lived, subjective experience, as it manifested itself moment to moment in the consciousness of every living person.

If you already are everything, everywhere, always, there is nowhere to go and nothing to be.(...) No limitation, no story. No story, no Being.

Az egyetlen dolog, ami közted és a célod között áll nem más, mint az a szar sztori, amit magadnak adsz el?, hogy miért is nem lehet elérni mindazt, amit szeretnél.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,The moon takes up the wondrous tale,And nightly to the listening earthRepeats the story of her birth;While all the stars that round her burn,And all the planets in their turn,Confirm the tidings as they roll,And spread the truth from pole to pole.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't my time, or your time, or anyone else's time...

That was quite a story, sir!

Heatherstar of WindClan told this ridiculous story

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Dear Editor: It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.