Quotes About Continuity

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

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

I've taken a lot of pride in that, and not feeling any pressure to yield or to bend to what someone else's imagination of who I should be is. I'm grateful for that, and I still want to continue to do that. It can sound cliche, 'be true to yourself,' but that does mean something.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don't see why I would stop.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

We did so much work developing the character of Kratos, why would we throw all that out? We're sort of treating the first seven games like chapter one of this character's life.

I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.

Whatever GOD creates, GOD sustains.

History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

Forgive me if I am repeating myself but time travelling will do that to a fellow.

To us decay is death, but to nature it is another beginning.

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.

Sometimes people take the approach that the play starts when the ball is snapped and kind of ends when you catch the ball, but for us... there's a new play that starts as soon as you catch that ball.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

As the scholar Mark Singleton writes, from the fifteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century

To the Circle of Fire; those who have gone before, those who are present, and those who have yet to come.

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.