Unbroken Quotes

• Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Identity, Dignity

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• If you can take it, you can make it.

  Louis Zamperini

  Ifs

  "Fictional character: Older Pete". "Unbroken", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

  Louis Zamperini

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Thinking

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• A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Letting Go, Pain, Moments

  Laura Hillenbrand (2014). “Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive”, p.49, Delacorte Press

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• This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Lying, Heart, Self Worth

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.182, Random House

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• The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Happiness, Adversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Divine, Divine Love

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.376, Random House

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• Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Fate, Men, Emotional

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.148, Random House

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• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Past, Oxygen

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Engineering, Years

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• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Oxygen, Water, Essentials

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Hard Times, Laughing, Reason

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House

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• At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Beautiful, War, Moments

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.379, Random House

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• We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

  Brian Sandoval

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Life, Pain, Believe

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Grateful, Sunset, Men

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.166, Random House

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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Personality, Gestures

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

  Jay Inslee

  Mistake, Thinking, Issues

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• What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Unseen, Invisibility

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• Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Inspire, Situation

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

  Djuna Barnes

  Block, Thinking, Hair

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

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• Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

  Steve Buyer

  Commitment, Eight, America

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• All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

  Ali Smith

  Eye, Broken, Might

  Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.370, Penguin UK

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