The basic quality that any great story must have is a…

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

— Billy Squier

“Telling a story that illustrates how your business model solves a customer problem is a clear way to introduce listeners to the idea. Stories…

— Alexander Osterwalder

Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a…

— Ernest Kurtz

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one…

— Diego Luna

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human…

— Frederick Lenz

“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”

— David Mitchell

That's why we trust the Bible - it speaks to both realities: the unchanging human condition and the constantly changing cultural conditions. It speaks…

— Mike Yaconelli

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed…

— Nick Offerman

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

“A basic guide for application offers this equation: The intention of the text The human condition of the text The human situation of the…

— Zack Eswine

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest…

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present…

— Rachel Held Evans

“It's the basic truth of the human condition: everybody lies.”

— house

“I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding…

— V.C. Andrews