Quotes About Continuity

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.

A story never ends at the end. There is always after.

I am. We are. She is. He was. They will be.

I always hated loose ends. Dangling phrases, unopened packages, or a character that inexplicably disappears, like a lone sheet on a clothesline before a vague storm, left to flap in the wind until that same wind carries it away to become the skin of a ghost or a child's tent.

Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said.

Time moved in two directions because every step into the future carried a memory of the past

If this interior experience was possible in the twentieth century b.c. it is also possible in the twentieth century a.d. The fundamental nature of man has not changed during the interval.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.

Our world does not make us; nor do we make ourselves; we are the continuing creation of the interaction between our organic structure and the way we shape the world around us. It's possible to do it badly. It's also possible to do it well. We are an epigenetic phenomenon: our development is elaborated continuously during our entire lifetimes as it has been down through the ages.

I am here because of those who came before. And I will go on because of those who come after.

Down the corridor, the staircase was decorated with paintings of them all, her and Mum and Grandad and countless other similar faces that stared out at her and reminded her, as she climbed down the stairs, that men and women may come and go, be born and die, but the family goes on and stays the same forever.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

And its strong continuing religious beliefs were an indication of how widespread the faculty was, granting the "supernatural" events a respectable orthodoxy.

Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.

When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.