“I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor...” — Richard Holbrooke Quote

“I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.”

“People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.”

“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.”

“I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.”

“In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.”

“The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.”

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

“I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.”

“Comedy can't be about continuous success.”

“To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.”

“When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.”