#story

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. ↗

— James Gunn

#i #narrative #prefer #rather #replace

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth. ↗

— Val Guest

#america #anybody #bomb #bombs #caught

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#books #enough #exploring #found #genesis

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#countries #first #first time #goal #history

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#bathing suit #been #horror #line #most

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. ↗

— William Hague

#because #been #concluded #conflicts #dealing

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#certainly #heard #history #invoke #those

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ↗

— William Halsey

#circumstances #deal #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #forced

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history