Quotes About Story

Donald Trump became a symbol of the media's own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media.

The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.

Donald Trump produced on a daily basis an astonishing, can't-stop-following-it narrative.

Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a satisfying success story doesn't smooth the hustle in hustler.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

era un'altra patologia, un'altra storia, e me ne tornai a letto quasi rasserenato a dimostrazione di quanto ci rassicuri, in mezzo ai nostri drammi, l'esistenza di altri drammi che ci siano stati risparmiati.

When we say a character in my films doesn't function, we mean he doesn't function as a person, but he does function as a character that is, until you take him as a symbol. At that point it is you who are not functioning. Why not simply accept him as a character, without judging him? Accept him for what he is. Accept him as a character in a story, without claiming that he derives or acquires meaning from that story. There may be meanings, but they are different for all of us.

I paused, deciding which story to pluck from my quiver and shoot in his direction" -Eve

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God's grace means. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

When we start to realize how amazing God's story is, a question naturally arises: "Who am I that I should get to be a part of the greatest story ever told?

Yes, this is a memoir of a real experience. It is not fiction. I was on a search committee for a senior minister and this is my story of that search. Others might tell it differently.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

Once you've taken the knife out of your heart, it makes for a wonderful story.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Pues bien, mi señor creador don Miguel, ¡también usted se morirá, también usted, y se volverá ala nada de que salió...! ¡Dios dejará de soñarle! ¡Se morirá usted, sí, se morirá, aunque no lo quiera; se morirá usted y se morirán todos los que lean mi historia.

Probably the master of the time-dislocation story was J. G. Ballard. His view, evident in much of his short fiction, was that time was degrading and this resulted in

Aku adalah sejarah yang sedang dibuat, dan aku ingin dunia tahu; Entah kau berpikir aku ini orang bodoh ataukah pahlawan, kau berada didalamnya untuk satu pertunjukan besar!

Identity is the engine that drives the relationship not only with ourselves but also with God and others. If your identity is broken, your life is broken. If you define it incorrectly, you will carry that wrong definition into your story. If all you see are your limitations, you will miss out on the stunning possibilities God is creating in front of you.

Grace gets censored when we write these devilish decrees for our lives. Secret commandments get scrawled on personal tablets of shame, and we live life as if our stories belong on a discount rack rather than as valued, cherished children of God. We let a moment of pain cut us off from a lifetime of grace.

For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all the more later when Kenneth told him a very odd story about being sent on a wild-goose chase to the fourth floor by a girl from Haberdashery.

American Tragedy: The Inside Story of the Simpson Defense,

the whole of the Bible is the love story of God calling us into relationship with himself.

the definition of immortality centered on being remembered. The "living dead" were kept from fading into anonymity by being called to life in communal story, song, and dance. Remembering, whether by written or oral means, is an act of distillation. Some memories fall away; others survive, are embellished, and become stronger with the passage of time. Stories