Quotes About Story

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The story of the ugly duckling and its scornful brethren holds special significance for the Dalits. I wonder how many swans waste their lives thinking of themselves as ugly ducklings, trapped and punished by the inequities of our caste system.

When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.

We take those things we need from the Confederates' abandoned homes: salt, sugar, even this journal, near full with someone else's words, overlapped now, crosshatched beneath mine. On every page, his story intersecting with my own.

But the photograph hints, too, at another story. I can see it in the tall grass brushing her ankles, the blades bent as if moved by wind.

Your Home should tell the story of who you are, and be a Collection of what you Love.

but the watchers knew their story

The earliest record of Adventist history is in Genesis 1. The supremacy and authority of Jesus is evident even in the Creation story.

Wherever you are in your story, as you turn to the Father, know that He is running toward you. There is always more of the Father's embrace awaiting you, and it can come when you least expect it.

It is the stale breath of Death on his open and vulnerable neck that immortalizes the hero, that lends a fireside story its luster.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

What you own is your own kingdom / What you do is your own glory / What you love is your own power / What you live is your own story

theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.

I had read the official reports. I knew by then that official reports were never enough to explain John Vann. There was always more to his story.

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.

It is what writers do, imagine and feel the pain of others, sometimes at the expense of feeling their own. Here, then, in these pages is mine, the fear of death, of loss, of unexpressed love. Here is the truth told in a story. And in the telling of it perhaps I have found some way to have courage, to believe.

He believed that human beings were inside a story that had no ending because its teller had started it without conceiving of one, and that after ten thousand tales was no nearer to finding the resolution of the last page. Story was the stuff of life, and to realise you were inside one allowed you to sometimes surrender to the plot, to bear a little easier the griefs and suffering and to enjoy more fully the twists that came along the way.

The truth turns into a story when it grows old. We all become stories in the end. So, though the narrative was flawed, the sense was of a life so lived it was epic.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Every great love starts with a great story...

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

Everyone loves a good boxing story, especially God