Quotes About Story

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

Again, I know that story is suspect in the high precincts of American fiction, but only because it brings entertainment and pleasure, the same responses that have always driven puritanical spirits at the dinner table wild when the talk turns to sexual intercourse and incontinence.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadel—the whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me.

I don't understand what has happened. But that is has happened—that I know. It is a framed moment, not a story, but something much smaller, a spark of meaning I will return to all my life. The DNA of identity. What, much later, I learn is a vignette, a photo frayed at the edges, its old silver frame stowed in the dark attic of the mind.

Hay algo más aburrido que la historia del pasado? -dijo Therese sonriendo. -Quizá un futuro sin historia.

This is seen in his well-known use of the parable—which, from its origin in the Greek word paraballein, literally means to throw one thing down alongside another. Parables are not just pretty stories that are easy to remember; rather, they help us understand something difficult by comparing it to, placing it beside, something with which we are very familiar, and always something concrete, specific.

if you are names without a nature, it's not because I don't remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless stirring and turning. But it's for this precisely that you must forgive me, because in every story of obsession there's only one character, only one plot. I am writing about myself alone, it's all I know, and for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of life.

But if we honestly name the passionate desires of our heart, and if we risk seeing those desires come to be, the plot of our life story will begin to move with greater intentionality. Yet the only way we can keep walking on that path is to allow our self moments to rest and celebrate the temporary climax of a story in denouement.

To admit we are foolish, weak, and in need of repentance gives the vindictive and self-righteous camp plenty of ammunition to turn against us and to turn others against our leadership. But the alternatives to living in and living out truth are far worse: we either hide from truth or we choose to spin our sin and our story.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both." After that meeting, Edmond had

I estimate that some two hundred million people are following this story through online news reports, social media, television, and radio.

What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie

Langdon held his ground, finally feeling like he was about to get some answers. "Who are the soldiers in black suits? Why are they trying to kill me?" "Long story," the man said. "I'll explain on the way." Langdon frowned, not entirely liking this answer.

and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

Dupa cum observa odata Napoleon? ,,Ce e istoria altceva decat o poveste convenabil ticluita? Prin insasi natura ei, istoria e totdeauna o relatare subiectiva.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world

I realized," he'd say. "I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.