Quotes About Continuity

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process.

Would you be surprised to learn that our problems are not very different from those that people who lived centuries ago encountered? Human beings have not changed much over the years.

Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future.

La storia è una monotona ripetizione; gli uomini sono stati, sono e saranno sempre gli stessi.

Los relojes llevan la misma cadencia, Y las noches tienen las mismas estrellas.)

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending... no first beginning.

The sun will come up tomorrow, and that same sun will set later in the day. Life goes on." "So does that mean you're okay going it alone?

The movement of history is slow and covers vast reaches of time: to cross it requires seven-league boots.

The obstinate presence of the past greedily and steadily swallows up the fragile lifetime of men.

Il est évident que les 'vertus prêchées par les confucianistes, respect, humilité... soumission et subordination aux supérieurs en rang et en âge', renforcent puissamment l'autorité politique et sociale de la caste des lettrés, c'est-à-dire leur propre classe. Cette morale formaliste et traditionnelle a beaucoup compté dans la continuité et l'immobilisme social de la Chine.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.

Colombia cambia pero sigue igual, son nuevas caras de un viejo desastre.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

So, here we are, back where we were before. And before that. And before that.

seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall.

the whole point of the Link; one item must lead you to the next.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.

Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up in was just a matter of where your foot happened to fall...And there was no logical continuity from one section to another. And it was because of this lack of logical continuity that choices really didn't mean very much.