S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stories begin when the last chapter says goodbye, when the last of tender feelings have seen their end, when two people release their saddest sighs, knowing it is time to walk their separate ways. That's when...”
“Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.”
“Stories brighten the reality and bring out something unforeseen, they make a little less broken that which bears a fracture upon it.”
Source: Memory of Water
“Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.”
“Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.”
“Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
“Stories can die. Of course they can. Ask any author who's had an idea wither in their head, fail to thrive and bear fruit. Or a book that spoke to you as a child but upon revisiting it was silent and empty.”
Source: The Library of the Unwritten
“Stories can heal.”
“Stories can save us.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.”
“Stories carry truth deeper than words alone ever could.”
“Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.”
Source: Dumplin'
“Stories change lives when they reach the people meant to hear them.”
Source: Get in the Boat: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Dance with Dementia.
“Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.”
“Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.”
“Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.”
“Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Stories connect us at a human level that factual statements and logical arguments can't possibly match.”
Source: Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred.
“Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.”
Source: Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006
“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.”
“Stories don't like to end when you want them to, do they? Loose ends aren't easy to snip with scissors or tuck inside a hem. They tempt you. They want you to keep pulling until there is nothing left to keep you warm.”
Source: A Small Indiscretion
“Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.”
“Stories don’t always have happy endings.”
“Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.”
“Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.”
“Stories End, Love Doesn't.”
“Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”
Source: The Last Valentine
“Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.”
“Stories for children are blueprints for emotional strength. I write to help them build soft hearts with strong roots”
Source: Princess and Bosbo's Butterfly Adventure
“Stories from Beyond the Sea – “I could not believe my good luck!” from Page 31
“Not only was she stunningly beautiful but she was also witty, flirtatious and at the same time understanding and loving, I couldn’t believe my good fortune and did all I could to convince her to stay with me in the United States.
After getting married to my young wife Ursula, in a small town in upstate New York, and thinking that the US Navy would be a better option than returning to a life at sea on merchant ships, I took the navy exam to become a student pilot. As a commissioned officer with the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJR) I enjoyed many benefits that the aviation cadets didn’t get, including having basic living quarters.
Having had some prior experience flying the right hand seat in a DC-3 when I was in Liberia, I took to aviation, my new endeavor, like a duck to water.”
“Stories get people to think what you want them to be thinking about, without explicitly telling them to think it.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“Stories hack the brain, but what you’re really hacking is what gets in the way of a human connection.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“Stories hack trust because they are a co-creating process.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.”
“Stories had their lies but also their truths. Stories were how we taught ourselves to fear the things we secretly desired.
Dark forests. Beautiful monsters. Broken hearts.”
Source: A Feather So Black
“Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“Stories happen to those who tell them.”
“Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.”
“Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.”
Source: Iron Hearted Violet
“Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.”
Source: Icefire
“Stories have a unique way of reminding us who we are and who we can become. If my books, fiction or nonfiction, can provide even a spark of hope, a moment of reflection, or a little inspiration to someone, then I feel I’ve accomplished something meaningful.”
“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“Stories have a way of running off the page and taking on lives of their own, if we let them.
Perhaps the same goes for inner alchemy, once we surrender control and let the natural course of life lead us toward wholeness.”
“Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.”
“Stories have always created understanding and connection between humans. In this era of great misunderstanding, I wish to help rein us back in to our shared humanity. The beauty of my culture was imprinted on me when I was very young, and I cherish it so deeply that my desire to share it only grows. Like an archeologist desperately excavating a forgotten world, Want to bring the details of my nomadic upbringing to life before it is lost forever.”
Source: The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
“Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.”