War Of Narrative Quotes

#1. It was a war about fear, he thought, not figures on the ground. It was a war of narrative, a story of a war, and it grew in the telling.

Lavie Tidhar

#2. The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. And tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once.

Herman Melville

#4. The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.

Eli Manning

#5. People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.

Gloria Estefan

#6. The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that destroys the past as it occurred. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Ann Coulter

#7. I have taken exactly what I wanted," he whispered in her ear. "I will have every part of you, until I live with you underneath your skin.

Thea Harrison

#8. In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

William Boyd

#9. To gain all we must risk all

Paul Von Lettow-vorbeck

#10. They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

Tom Gjelten

#11. I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

Geraldine Brooks

#12. North was only a direction indicated by a compass
if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

Shelby Foote

#13. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Alexander Pope

#14. The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

Wendy E. Long

#15. Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

William Cowper

#16. staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work.

David F. Winkler

#17. I love getting in the open floor and running.

Chris Bosh

#18. Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

Steven Harrison

#19. We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity.

Anne Waldman

#20. Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Kevin Bales

#21. Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.

Eusebius

#22. What you do, who you're with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

Mike Rowe

#23. Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)

Laura Mullen

#24. It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.

Donna Tartt