Quotes About Continuity

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

the present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances?

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it's discussed at every board meeting continually.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.

Evening succeeds evening.

The days passed. Sunday turned to Monday turned to Tuesday turned to Wednesday.

Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.

We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.

I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

When people start to believe that the same administration will continue with the same policies for three or four years, they start to think about capital investment.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Your campaign shouldn't just die the day you spend your last cent.