Quotes About Story

This is our story, and we're not sticking to it.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

The history of censorship in twentieth-century America is largely a story of self-regulation in the name of self-preservation—voluntary restraint enacted on the assumption that governmental restriction would be worse.

I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)

The story of the earlier decades remains unknown and largely unexamined.

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

I'VE OFTEN TOLD children the story of a man who stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God," he cried out, "Look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in Your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded: "I did send help. I sent you.

No, we are in the midst of a broken story, and we have lost the ability to parse its lines.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

Parisians are always in a big hurry, but are especially frantic if they're behind you. They're desperate to be where they rightfully feel they belong: in front of you. It's a whole other story when you're behind them, especially when it's their turn: suddenly they seem to have all the time in the world.

I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper, it must be something to make Hamilton look poorly.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.