Quotes About Story

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

Many people are so identified with their shame-and-pain stories that they're scared to shift out of that identity; they would rather remain miserable than take the risk of stepping into a new story. Remember: resistance clings to the familiar at all costs, even if what's familiar is making you miserable.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

If it occurred to Thursey that there was really no relationship between marrying your own true love and having a fortune showered upon you, she didn't bother about that. In a story you might as well have both, it was make-believe anyway. But if I had to choose, she thought. If I had to choose . . . she stared at her ragged dress hanging from its hook, and her ragged mended sandals on the shelf, then put the books away. How would I ever have such a choice, except in a made-up story?

Underneath every simple, obvious story about 'human error,' there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization.

Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?" "That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice.

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.

Consciousness is a story that we tell ourselves. But what if that story is a lie?

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.

Museums are obliged to denature and make dreary the impulse which led to an object's original creation. Serried rows of coins are like Panini football stickers in a more ponderous form. But as objects to be handled they tell an extraordinary story, from the most over-the-top gold monster to a clipped, almost featureless little square of rough metal used as emergency currency in the Siege of Vienna.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.

Un libro es producto de la colaboración entre el lector y el texto y, en el mejor de los casos, ese encuentro da lugar a una historia de amor como cualquier otra.

And in my secret heart of hearts, I admit there was some old mush that hadn't been scooped out of me by hardship and insanity. But there was also the story itself, the story Boris and I had written together, and in that story, our bodies and thoughts and memories had gotten themselves so tangled up that it was hard to see where one person's ended and the other's began.

The rhythm that allows no change, no difference, is one that seeks to stop time, and stopping time means death. The teacher has lost the possibility of an ongoing story because he is trapped in the trauma of a single moment and is never released.

but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.