Quotes About Continuity

To keep its past as part of its present, God gives to Israel a series of rituals, routines, and rhythms.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.

Und es sollte mir einmal mehr beweisen, dass eine Gelegenheit geradewegs zu einer anderen führt, genauso wie ein Risiko ein weiteres nach sich zieht, ein Leben ein anderes und ein Tod den nächsten.

That's the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.

Steady as she goes

Some of our best living is done through the people we leave behind.

?ó??—gleam, shine, radiance Emerging out of itself and yet remaining with itself—continuously radiating out from itself and yet nothing given away or lost. Gleaming—shining not only away from itself and an emergence, but also beckoning back into something dark, concealed, inaccessible. Shining—the radiance of the self-concealing.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity.