Quotes of: Success-stories Keyword

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Slammerkin

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Make It Happen

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

My Reading Life

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Men Explain Things to Me

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Michael Martone

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Mister Pip

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Merlin

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

The Mountain Story

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

My Own Story

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

My Own Story

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Magical Thinking: True Stories

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

The Mountain Story

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mal denen şeye kendi varlığımız ya da halkın varlığı gibi tuhaf bir ad koymuşuz. Üstelik varlığını kaybetmek insanlar arasında ayıp ve budalalık sayılmış.

Matryona's House And Other Stories

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

The Night Gardener

For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.

New and Selected Poems