Quotes About Story

when the church responds to the word of God as it ought, the church demonstrates the love of God and the mind of Christ, in word and in deed. Just as the church comes to understand the love of God by attending to the story of Jesus and getting caught up in the gospel story, so the church in turn renders that story intelligible when it lives out the truth of the gospel.

A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.

Even when it was happening to me, I thought, 'This will make a good story someday,' but now that I think of it, its story's not that good at all. More important than its plot, it's the quality of feeling that strikes me now-something out of this world, 'outlandish' in its literal sense.

I don't tie in the Palestinian history to my father's. Their story is about nationalism and independence and not about genocide or murdering a nation.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The dreamer's sheen and the power of his passion had for a time attracted her, but in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have that explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

This Is My America is a piece of fiction; if this story were true, there wouldn't be an immediate happy ending for the Beaumonts. They would continue to live in the same society, combating racial prejudice and inequality – with all the disadvantages and stains of post-prison survival and recovery.

Literature...I'm gonna study books - the way they're written and what the author meant to say by writing the story. When I'm done, I want to get a job in a library.

Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell.

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.

He had told her the story of his brave ancestors in the army, but why didn't he ever speak of his family here and now?

Life is like a B-picture script.

I can give you some hope. I think you have it in you to survive all this. I think you're special. You could be what I was - a writer.... And if your life gets really difficult, Theo, there are two things you can do. You can force yourself to see people at a distance, like someone in a story. Then they'll lose their power over you. Or you can make up something better and escape it.

I'd much rather be greeted by a woman in a black bra who has a great story, than a man in black underwear who has no story at all.

Life has so many pages to turn, & this page doesn't mean the story is over. The story is never over.

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

That's the funny thing about writing your life story. You start out trying to remember dates and times and names. You think it's about facts, your life; that what you'll look back on and remember are the successes and failures, the time line of your youth and middle age, but that isn't it at all. Love. Family. Laughter. That's what I remember when it's all said and done.

The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise.

Time and space are real phenomena. But they are in no way absolute; they are not at all independent from what happens; they are not as different from the other substances of the world, as Newton had imagined them to be. We can think of a great Newtonian canvas on which the story of the world is drawn. But this canvas is made of the same stuff that everything else in the world is made of, the same substance that constitutes stone, light, and air: it is made of fields.

The story goes that in the dimly lit old halls of Kracow University, an austere professor of physics came out of his study waving around Einstein's article, screaming, "The new Archimedes is born!

For me, business is a story about people—what they are capable of when supported and challenged; what they can envision and create—which is why I like the business world.

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.

The story of meat follows a sacred typology: the birth of a God, the dismemberment of the god's body, and the god's resurrection.