Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Recollection of Shared Days: Stories of Celebration

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this encounter would resound like the sound of footsteps.

Unknown

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

Your heart is known in Heaven,” the angel said. “And all that you are.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

The Wild Truth: The Untold Story of Sibling Survival

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Barbara Deming

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

John Grisham

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

John Hench