Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

Vietnamese

...science fiction is something that happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that happen - though often you only wish that it could.

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.

Crime Incorporated: The Inside Story of the Mafia's First 100 Years

May every voice proclaim thy praise. And every knee bow in thy presence The tangible promise of our faith. May thy Charity, like a mantle, Lift us to God on high.

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

nasionalisme terurai dalam sikap belaka dan bukan program konkret, setumpuk keluhan dan bukan kekuatan yang terorganisasi, gambar dan bunyi yang memadati gelombang udara dan percakapan, namun tanpa perwujudan jasadi.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in fact is the short story of life.

A Dance in Melancholy: A Collection of My Articles and Memoirs

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge

We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

A Dilli-Mumbai Story ...when Love Won Over Terror

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Ender's Game

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

Engine Summer

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse