Stories Quotes

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Death steals everything except our stories.

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.