Stories Quotes - Page 17

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?

...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

Be the hero of your own life story.

Write the story that only you can write.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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.