#story

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#dialectic #disorder #identity #movement #narrative

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#gift #god #history #mystery #present

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#both sides #fair #i #myself #political

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#big #big deal #deal #history #i

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

#folly #fool #greater #history #human

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#because #being #considered #event #ever

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#ago #architecture #art #believe #fought

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#feeling #gets #gift #give #good