Narratology Slideshare Quotes & Sayings

The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme. — Frances Beinecke

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God. — Luther Burbank

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant. — Erik Naggum

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted. — Patrick Swift

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. — Bruce Cockburn

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. — A. S. W. Rosenbach

Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here ... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate. — Louis Thomas McFadden

Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer. — Warren Farrell

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion. — David Benioff

Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense. — Rosellen Brown

I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life — Nouman Ali Khan

His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions. — Kate Chopin