Quotes About Continuity

How sometimes everything closes up, a painted fan, landscapes and moments flowing together until the sense of distance— say, between Clapp's Pond and me— vanishes, edges slide together like the feathers of a wing, everything touches everything.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.

In this restricted sense continuity may be said to bring a notion of infinity in its wake – the notion of potential infinity which is associated with the idea of a never-ending process, or an operation which is indefinitely repeatable, such as that of adding one to a whole number. But in such cases there is no infinite collection of actual parts of space or time and no actual completed infinite totality of numbers.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past.

She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly—and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.

They did not speak. Once, she said suddenly, "Mr. Galt." "Yes?" "No. Nothing. I just wanted to know whether you were still there." "I will always be there.

Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried - it is not even past.

that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress.

THE "GOING HOME" SYNDROME As human beings, we gravitate toward the familiar. We like to sleep on the same side of the bed each night, to park in the same space at work, to go back to our favorite vacation spot. Returning to the familiar is a basic instinct that gives our lives a sense of continuity and safety in a chaotic and changing universe.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

I had a theology professor once," I said to John, "who told us that religion was not about being certain but about living with uncertainty. It was about being comfortable with doubt, and maintaining the continuity of one's reverence for a profound mystery.

Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.

The man who has come to this is the man who was here from the beginning. He does what he always did. Nothing has changed.

We can't find any definitive beginning or end to … anything really.

We might think that by tossing a ball we initiate an action, but this is merely an arbitrary point in a beginningless line of action.

Even though the ball comes to a rest, the energy that once moved it is still here, it's been converted … , but it won't disappear. … Nothing stops.

B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.

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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end.