Quotes About Continuity

The pleasure we take in eating is an efficient way to ensure that the body will get the nourishment it needs. The pleasure of sexual intercourse is an equally practical method for the genes to program the body to reproduce and thereby to ensure the continuity of the genes.

The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow.

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in all mankind.

The idea of restructuring [perestroika]… combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.

A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.

Gdje nam je dokaz, da naše ''ja'' traje, da smo ''mi'' još uvijek trajno i neprekidno ''mi'', gdje nam je zapravo mjera?

Life went on. No matter what happened, life went on, inexorably, callously, it might seem, to those in grief. But somehow, in this continuity, there were the seeds of comfort.

How many people had stood here, as she did now, puzzled, unhappy, numb with pain and perplexity? And how many had found comfort in the knowledge of the continuity of life, of being but one link in a long chain of human experience, in this old, old setting?

Every tomorrow will soon be a yesterday

The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it seemed reborn. It represented cosmic continuity within natural change—spiritual continuity within the changes of material life.

History appears to be an endless journey and it's always found from generation to generation.

My reign is not only from this generation, but including the ones to come in the near future.

Scientifically speaking, if my body is not the same as it was yesterday, then who am I?

Sunrise and sunset are all the same from an observer's point of view. As life is the same at birth and at death. The true Self continues.

They are being offered a narrative, an historical story whose hope of 'salvation' lies not in a flight from history but in a great convulsive change within history, a transformation in which there will be continuity with the present as well as discontinuity.

My fourth starting-point towards a fresh approach is to insist on some kind of lectio continua, both personally and publicly. There are, to be sure, many times and occasions when we need to choose special readings to suit a particular moment or challenge. But the church's staple diet ought to be to work through the books of the Bible on a more or less continuous loop.

Love existed, still in existence and will still exist no matter how the world turns out.

The first candle will, of course, burn out in time. But before this happens, the light from it will be passed on to another candle, and then to another, so that though the candles may change, the light will burn forever, like the light on a Buddhist altar. As the candles change, so will the way in which two people love each other; yet their love, like the light, need never go out.

Trust what you love, continue to do it and it will take you where you need to go.

Ich meine damit eine Geschichte. Aber nicht irgendeine Geschichte. Ich denke an große Erzählungen – Erzählungen, die tief und komplex genug sind, um Erklärungen hinsichtlich der Herkunft und der Zukunft eines Volkes zu bieten; Erzählungen, die Ideale aufstellen, Verhaltungsregeln vorgeben, die Quellen von Autorität benennen und durch all dies eine Dimension von Kontinuität und Sinnhaftigkeit erzeugen.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

God, I pray that my family will continue on in the faith. Give my children ears to hear and the memory to recall their legacy in future years. Remind us to pray often for family members and for our descendants, just as some of our ancestors surely prayed for us. Create from us, O Lord, a family legacy that will honor you for generations to come.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.