Quotes About Continuity

I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.

"Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses."

They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.

My words are the words of my father, and the words of my father are the words of my grandfather, and the words of my grandfather are the words of my great-grandfathers - Hasan and Husayn; and their words are the words of Ali, and the words of Ali are the words of the Prophet of Allah; and the words of the Prophet are the words of Allah.

Esto es como el circo Romano, como la inauguración del Anfiteatro Flavio por el emperador Tito. Mas de dos mil años de diferencia y nada ha cambiado.

Allora, come lo si guarda? Lo si guarda guardando il permanere della sua persona nel tempo e nello spazio, cioè la memoria di Lui. Si chiama memoria il contenuto tangibile, sensibile, visibile di una cosa che è incominciata nel passato e rimane anche adesso.

Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with the changing seasons, life re-creates itself. And the best of life must be nurtured if it is to thrive.

Even time breaks down within this calculus of interbeing. We stand in a spiral—rather than a strictly linear—continuity with our ancestors and the ancient cosmos. We still see the light of the stars that died long ago and that now form our living bodies; so, too, do our actions reach into the future of all life and death. It matters what we bring forth with the matter of our bodies. We create, as cosmos-formed creatures, within creation.

Our lives are in chronological order, if no other kind of order.

This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.

Via agora que jamais poderia se libertar das suas antigas faces, impossível negá-las porque tinha qualquer coisa de comum que permanecia no fundo de cada uma delas, qualquer coisa que era como uma misteriosa unidade ligando umas às outras, sucessivamente, até chegar à face atual.

That edict remains in place to the present day.

Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.

Like a giant doomed to eat damsels, Q. must fill a vast daily quota of attention and adulation from varied sources. In a small town he might run out of people, but by keeping in constant motion, he's in no such danger. The only danger is to those suppliers of attention who expect some continuity of response, who fail to understand that for Q. people are an inexhaustible natural resource for his sustenance and delight, like air or water or sunshine.

before there was a death there had been a life, and before that life a death and that there would be a life after this death too. The circles would continue on without end and everyone who was once connected would be connected again.

We are often reminded that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, and I believe deeply in the truth of that sentiment. Few things are as vital as remembering and passing on history to future generations.

It's foolhardy to think that a story ends

Death is an unending rerun until the last person with any memory of you is also dead.

because in the Dissolving, the fire should be light always, in the Sublimation mean, in the Coagulation temperate, continual in the Whitening, and strong in the Rubification.

These points of continuity and discontinuity should have an important role in our interpretation of the Bible, and knowledge of them should guard against a facile or uninformed imposition of our own cognitive environment on the texts of ancient Israel, which is all too typical in confessional circles. This recognition should also create a more level playing ground as critical scholarship continues to evaluate the literature of the ancient world.

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine

The past is everlasting.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all- plus c'est la meme, plus ca change.

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.