Top 17 Modern Retelling Quotes

#1. How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.

Katharina Zell

#3. Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

Lily Collins

#5. When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Aristotle.

#6. No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Jack Kornfield

#7. Wow, son. You're mad retarded."
David whipped his head around and pinned my brother with a lethal glare. "Don't say that word."
"Sorry." Raymond kept staring at me. "You're mad special ed."
David scoffed, and I burst out laughing.

Santino Hassell

#8. 40 THINGS THAT PROVE GOD CARES ABOUT GIRLS, including He made babies so cute! and He invented Australian accents! and There are no diets in heaven!

Kathleen Hale

#9. But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?

Jenny Han

#10. No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

J.B. Priestley

#11. I went back to Australia to do a show called 'The Beautiful Lie,' which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.

Sarah Snook

#12. An elite is inevitable.

Jenny Holzer

#13. I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'

Juliet Rylance

#14. The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.

Joseph Skinner

#15. Behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Albert Einstein

#16. Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes.

David Pietrusza

#17. She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.

Alexander McCall Smith

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