Quotes About Continuity

But I think it's important that things endure.

Today is a part of eternity.

The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my primal mother and has come down to me.

grounded her, reminded her that sometimes a thread of the past could weave its way into the present.

EXTRAPOLATE is principally defined as: "to project, extend, or expand known data or experience into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area by inferences based on an assumed continuity, correspondence, or other parallelism between it and what is known." Whee! Did you get

the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years.

these are people used to seeing one another daily year after year; everything they say is the continuation of things already said.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life was too dense and ramified and embroiled for me to bear it always with me, imagine so many lives, each with its own past and the pasts of the other lives that continue to become entangled one with the others.

Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another, without communication among themselves.

El amor es una línea una sucesión de puntos trazados sobre el plano del existencia. Imposible saber en donde empieza, en cual termina. Como independizar un segmento de otro si todo parece ser un único trazo continuo

Nevertheless, despite all superficial continuity, a remarkable change has come about within the last seventy-five years. The change is nothing less than the substitution of paganism for Christianity as the dominant view of life. Seventy-five years ago, Western civilization, despite inconsistencies, was still predominantly Christian; today it is predominantly pagan. (1923)

Leaders take lessons from the past, but never sacrifice the future for the sake of mere continuity. People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

We are friends, my dogs and I, in spite of evolutionary discontinuity and because of evolutionary continuity.

Lives leak into each other, the past lays claim to the present

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'

What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced.