Quotes About Continuity

We proceed out of history into history again.

Yo sentía el transcurso, la esencia del tiempo en sus repeticiones. Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

No existe el futuro sin el pasado, porque lo que va a suceder no se puede imaginar más como una forma de repetición.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.

in Sante Fe time is not that shallow. There one can go deep into a continuity as the pueblos and the culture they represent take one back at least eight hundred years through a single Indian dance. For a European that continuity is life-giving.

The labor to achieve inspired, intelligent form is a single continuity, a work in progress which is eventually interrupted when the dynamic consciousness which it reflects ceases. From time to time one may pause to give integrated shape to a stage of one's progress, in order to best pursue it further. And so these films have each been brought to an end, in order to be better abandoned.

In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

History wasn't a straight line, it was a circle.

Los estratos de nuestra vida reposan tan juntos los unos sobre los otros que en lo actual siempre advertimos la presencia de lo antiguo, y no como algo desechado y acabado, sino presente y vívido.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

When an individual partakes of an idea, the individual and the idea are similar; therefore there will have to be another idea, embracing both the particulars and the original idea. And there will have to be yet another, embracing the particulars and the two ideas... ad infinitum. Thus every idea, instead of being one, becomes an infinite series of ideas.

Before we can profitably discuss whether we shall continue to exist after death, it is well to be clear as to the sense in which a man is the same person as he was yesterday.  

When an individual partakes of an idea, the individual and the idea are similar; therefore there will have to be another idea, embracing both the particulars and the original idea. And there will have to be yet another, embracing the particulars and the two ideas, and so on ad infinitum. Thus every idea, instead of being one, becomes an infinite series of ideas.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.

The revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

When I signed for Espanyol, all I was thinking about was that I needed continuity in the first division.

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.

The product of careful continuity is love....Trust, intimacy, intense use, and time are what made these buildings work so well.