Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.

A Season of Love: Stories to Help Heal, Grow and Find Peace Within

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.

Three Came Home

There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

One Story, One Song

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Outliers: The Story of Success

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

The Other Side of the Story

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

In The Presence of The Sun: Stories and Poems

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