Quotes About Story

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.

We all need narrative to make sense of the world.

In Brueghel's hands, Ovid's tale of a son's willful rejection of his father's wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.

Si immagini da qualche parte in un romanzo, questo la aiuterà a lottare contro la paura.

Again, again..." really means "We must love each other, you and I, if this one story, told and retold, is all we need." Reading again isn't about repeating yourself; it's about offering fresh proof of a love that never tires.

Celui-là sent la mangue. Encore une histoire avec plus de noyau que de chair.

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom.

Ulazimo u voz sa svojim smešnim prtljagom, vu?emo sa sobom ?ergu svoga lutalaštva, žalosnu pri?u mog detinjstva.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

No one ever understands what happened with Adam and Eve. That story isn't about sex. It's about death. The forbidden desire isn't love or lust—you can get that stuff anytime down at the public bath, even on earth. The forbidden desire is immortality.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell that story.

To je bila tužna pri?a - re?e. - Je li istinita? - A koja nije? - kimnu starica.

One story is Christianity; the other is best described as Jesusanity. It is an important difference, because Jesus is a very distinct figure in each story and, as a result, often inspires people in quite diverse ways.

Jesusanity is a coined term for the alternative story about Jesus. Here the center of the story is still Jesus, but Jesus as either a prophet or a teacher of religious wisdom. In Jesusanity, Jesus remains very much Jesus of Nazareth. He points the way to God and leads people into a journey with God. His role is primarily one of teacher, guide, and example.

There is no enthronement of Jesus at God's side, only the power of his teaching and example. In this story, the key is that Jesus inspires others, but there is no throne for him. He is one among many—the best, per-haps, and one worthy to learn from and follow.

According to Borg and Crossan, the way to understand Jesus' riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey is to appreciate the story of Jerusalem. Key to this story is the role of the city as the "center of the domination system

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

Probably that story would turn out to be fairly typical of the whole garrison, but asking questions was the only way to learn. So Father had always said: nobles could learn even from commoners if they cared to make the effort.

Life is not a snapshot, it's a filmstrip.