Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to b...

Morgan Guyton

To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the...

Shannon L. Alder

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting quest...

Yann Martel

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Beatrice and Virgil

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the mi...

Susan Minot

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Dennis Quaid

The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!

Armageddon in Retrospect

I'll fail." "At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body; stories nourish the soul.

Impromptu Scribe

The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life.

The Solution

The end of her life was only the beginning of her story. Sweet Sleep

Sweet Sleep

The choice you make between hating and forgiving can be the story of your life

Shantaram

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

Khaled Hosseini

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

Karen Kingsbury

The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.

Celia Weston

If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.

Charlie Trotter

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Donald Miller

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Helen Mirren

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch