Stories Quotes

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

Those who tell the stories rule society.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.