Samantha Power Quotes

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

There is a history in all men's lives.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.