Quotes About Continuity

I'm not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage point and you'll see that they stretch endlessly back into the past and spread inexorably forward into the future. One is never quite able to say "That's that, then," and draw a line.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

Die Vergangenheit wächst mit der Gegenwart.

Seen from a contemporary vantage point, not only is modern Greece definitively unrelated to ancient Greece, it may well be its antithesis.5

The past is never dead. It's not even past. —William Faulkner

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

One implication is that strategic positions should have a horizon of a decade or more, not of a single planning cycle. Continuity fosters improvements in individual activities and the fit across activities, allowing an organization to build unique capabilities and skills tailored to its strategy. Continuity also reinforces a company's identity. Conversely

The Circle of Eternal Return was an end without an end.

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before

There is no beginning. We are always in the middle.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

If you don't have that Singapore core, you can top up the numbers, but you are no longer Singapore. It doesn't feel Singapore - it isn't Singapore - and we can issue everybody red passports, but where is the continuity?

I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be.

Indeed, it has been suggested that there isn't a single bit of any of us – not so much as a stray molecule – that was part of us nine years ago.

And it is surely astounding to reflect that not once in the three billion years since life began has your personal line of descent been broken.

It's a slightly humbling thought that the genes you carry are immensely ancient and possibly—so far anyway—eternal. You will die and fade away, but your genes will go on and on so long as you and your descendants continue to produce offspring. And it is surely astounding to reflect that not once in the three billion years since life began has your personal line of descent been broken.