Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business c...

Company

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" — but o'er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast.

The Complete Stories and Poems

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

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

What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.

Daedalus Rising - The True Story of Icarus

If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society!

Deadly Deception: Story Of Aspartame: Shocking Expose Of The World's Most Controversial Sweetener

I dream therefore I am." - Marge to her young son Mikee

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.

Deathless

I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness; they are like stubborn relatives who invite themselves over even when you've made it clear that they are unwelcome.

Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

The Edict of Religion, a Comedy, and the Story and Diary of My Imprisonment

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else’s—before slipping back into darkness as our series of u...

The End

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in ...

East Side Story: A Novel

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh...

Episodes of Vathek

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

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

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God

Five Loves: Stories of Misguided Love, Lust and Betrayal

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection