Community Quote by Louis Zamperini Download Open image “'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.” — Louis Zamperini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Help Published Society Unbroken
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The most beautiful chapters of my life have always been written following the most broken ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a destiny that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s debut novel you could say. Love, sex, blood, and tears. A journey to find eternal life. To escape death. It was written over… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“This closed-system idea of literary value, defined and defended by the kind of men who have always taken their power for granted and used… — Jess Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
The kids started teasing me to get me to swear in Italian. Two or three months, I started retaliating. I found out I could… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish. — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image