Quotes About Continuity

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Semper eadem [Ever the same].

Was this what having an identity felt like? Was this being someone? Feeling like there was a core of who you were beyond which you could not be altered? Feeling . . . continuity. Feeling like you existed as a real, solid thing, apart from your trauma.

You aren't you. You aren't the you you were this morning. Your consciousness provides a semblance of continuity, but if you've been an infinite number between then and now.

Continuity of experience is an illusion, old man.

Everything only connected by "and" and "and."

Everything only connected by "and" and "and.

Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.

Nothing is ever over," said Jean. "You thread things on your life and think you've finished with them, but you haven't because it's like beads on a string and they come round again....

everything sustaining would last.

The lesson Scott taught the modern world was that the past does not have to die or vanish: it can live on, in a nation's memory, and help to nourish its posterity.

We watch the boy grow into a young man and then grow old and die, but it is still the same man.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

España es un país formidable, con una historia maravillosa de creación, de innovación, de continuidad de proyecto… Es el país más inteligible de Europa, pero lo que pasa es que la gente se empeña en no entenderlo (JULIÁN MARÍAS).

Revolution is not a one time event.

I'd solo on my guitar; then sing; then solo; then sing some more. one stopped when the other started. That way I felt a continuity, not a conflict, like a wheel that keeps turning. Both sounds - guitar and voice - were coming out of me, but they issued from different parts of my soul.

When Baba Faiz dies, faizi gets born. While faizi dies, Baba Faiz gets reborn. However, I never die.

Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.

The dead govern the living.