Quotes of: Good-story Keyword

Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

Love

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

John McGahern

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

David Talbot

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Donald Miller

A story is never complete.

Approaches To The Study Of Stories From Wales

Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.

Martin O'Malley

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

Simon Schama

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Chinua Achebe

The doctor who heads the trauma unit [at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany] wants to tell a happy story, too. He tells me that war is good for civilian medicine. I've read reports that make the same point: in peacetime, the cutting edge of...

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters. Don’t ever let the other stuff get ...

James Dashner

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: That's a really good perfume. [he holds the bottle out to Baldini, who turns away] Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Don't you want to smell it, Master? Giuseppe Baldini: I'm not in the mood to test it now. I have other things on my...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. A...

The Night is For Hunting

Charlie Chaplin: That's not what dogged me, George. It wasn't that. Charlie Chaplin: It was... it was the knowledge that if you did what I did for a living-if you were a clown-and you had a passion to tell a particular kind of story... something... b...

Chaplin

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

The Story Sisters

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

G.K. Chesterton

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Casey Kasem

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology