Quotes About Story

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

If you want success, then be your own success story.

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

When my father returned from the garbanzos, he verified my story about Dusty's illustrious career as an archaeologist. He wasn't too pleased about her having had a relapse, and gave her a good talking-to.

It's all true; only the facts have been changed.

Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really come to escape.

is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'.

fascinating book on story structure Into the Woods

Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story.

Story is what brain does. It is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'. Story emerges from human minds as naturally as breath emerges from between human lips. You don't have to be a genius to master it. You're already doing it. Becoming better at telling stories is simply a matter of peering inwards, at the mind itself, and asking how it does it.

The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be truly ripe) of any confusion of rights. The council's surprise was their consent. They bowed themselves out of the room and also out of the story

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

We are what we myth.

But my favorite story of Munger's flamboyant failures in diplomacy comes from Buffett, who shared it with Pabrai and Guy Spier over lunch in 2008. Munger, who has a glass eye, visited the Department of Motor Vehicles, where a hapless bureaucrat made the unfortunate error of asking him, "Do you still have just one good eye?" Munger replied, "No. I've grown a new one.

Story tells us of a nobleman of our nation, in King Henry VIII.'s reign, to whom a pardon was sent a few hours before he should have been beheaded, which, being not at all expected by him, did so transport him that he died for joy.