Stories Quotes - Page 6

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Every real story is a never ending story.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

To survive, you must tell stories.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters