#story

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. ↗

— Al Oerter

#history #i #my own #other #own

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#defamation #games #here #how #liberals

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#bible #book #creator #creature #ending

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗

— William S. Paley

#disappointments #engage #follies #history #power

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dream #get #guess #i #like

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dropped #explore #fairly #first #form

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#baseball history #because #come #cuba #else

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#american #first #girl #i #i always