Adyashanti Quotes, Stories Quotes

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Narrative Quotes

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Truth Quotes , Stories Quotes

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Jordan Quotes

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Firsts Quotes

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Stories Quotes , England Quotes

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

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Good Story Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , People Quotes , Stories Quotes