Unbroken Quotes - Page 8

• It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

  Grace Coolidge

  Giving, Ears, Interviews

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• This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

  Sri Aurobindo

  World, Solidarity, Contrary

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• The passion to condense from book to book
  Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
  Though we know well that when this fix the head,
  The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.

  Yvor Winters

  Wisdom, Book, Passion

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Humanity, Tribes, Culture

  Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.426, Courier Dover Publications

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• You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Silence, May, Moments

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• India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Tradition, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.342, Rajpal & Sons

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• I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Thinking, Bird

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

  Franz Kafka

  Running, Memories, Wall

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• Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, Hero, Honor

  "Obama's Forgettable Memorial Day". www.slate.com. May 27, 2008.

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