Recounting Quotes

#1. The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...

Carol Shields

#2. Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.

Jon Krakauer

#3. After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.

Phil Klay

#4. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

#6. Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Robert Pinsky

#8. The two chapters of Matthew's Gospel devoted to the infancy narratives are not a meditation presented under the guise of stories, but the converse: Matthew is recounting real history, theologically thought through and interpreted, and thus he helps us to understand the mystery of Jesus more deeply.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#10. In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

Pierre Corneille

#11. Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Russell M. Nelson

#12. Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

Neil Gaiman

#13. One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

#14. He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie's

Ann Patchett

#15. In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade

#16. Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

Hugh Mackay

#17. The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.

Carol Shields

#18. History is never the simple recounting of the past as it really was. It is inevitably an interpretation of the past, a retrospective vision of the past, which is limited both by the sources themselves and by the historian who selects and interprets them.

Timothy George

#19. The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

Bill Crawford

#20. The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.

Isaac Asimov

#21. Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

Elena Ferrante

#22. It is better to take much pride in the amount of changes you have imparted in the world, than you take recounting the amount of riches you've earned.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#23. Individuals are custodians of the life stream
temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

Charles Lindbergh

#24. I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

Gertrude Stein

#25. An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing.
"It has long legs and horns and ... and it's beautiful."
"Oh, good, we're back to this, then.

Marissa Meyer

#26. Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

Julian Casablancas

#27. We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

Mark Batterson

#28. Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.

Virginia Madsen

#29. Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.

Keith Devlin

#30. Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.

Robert H. Schuller

#31. Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Thomas Hardy

#32. If you think you are enlightened go spend a week with your family. ~ Ram Das

Martha Weber

#33. My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

Gigi Hadid