Quotes about continuity

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Source: The Book Thief

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

Source: The Sea Around Us

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Source: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Source: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134

Maxim 52, p. 259
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume III

Source: Les Misérables

Source: Golden Fool

1960s, I Have A Dream (1963)
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Context: The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Source: Children of the Mind

Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon

Source: You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Source: The Sea, the Sea

Source: The Titan's Curse

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Source: The Hottest State

Source: Watchmen

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

Source: The Final Empire

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Source: The Son of Neptune

Variant: ... because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: A Single Man

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: Cry Wolf

Source: Daniel Deronda

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Variant: There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Even before the Supreme Court’s grotesque 2010 decision

Source: The Rising

Source: Different Seasons

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: The Secret Scripture

2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: As we address these challenges – and others we cannot foresee tonight – America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Nothing's Sacred

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement.
See It Now (1954)
Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.

Source: Matilda

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Source: Gone Girl

Author’s Note (p. 276)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Wuthering Heights

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: Not My Father's Son

Source: Adultery

Source: Mr. Fox

Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Source: Every Day

Source: Annihilation

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 1
Context: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Source: Leviathan

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Source: Belzhar

Source: Clockwork Princess

Source: Ring

Source: The Princess and Curdie

Source: Giovanni's Room

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Context: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion

Source: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer