Quotes About Continuity

Though for short periods it seems to be distinguishable as a separate event, the water in the whirlpools is just the river itself.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What normal people perceive as the instant of "now" is in fact just the blanket average of an infinity of time-spikes that spring up and disappear at the interface between the fluid future and the crystallized past. The spikes are quantum extensions of the past into the future, but they're far too brief to have any effect on the world's smooth continuity.

La nuit tombe, le jour se lève. Toujours.

As for the present-day Festivals they were endless--blurred--going on forever so that no one knew where one had ended in the next begun.

Well, history isn't ever going to end, happily or unhappily. And history is ending every second - happily for some of us, unhappily for others, happily one second, unhappily the next. History is always ending and always not ending, and both ways there is nothing to wait for

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

Consistency is all I ask!

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

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usually without giving the matter too much thought, we see ourselves as part of a civic community transcending generations.

The annihilation/re-creation is done so quickly that man does not notice any discontinuum between the two units of time in his sense perception and imagines that everything continues to be as it has been.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on.

Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

we are at the threshold of a radical systemic change that requires human beings to adapt continuously. As a result, we may witness an increasing degree of polarization in the world, marked by those who embrace change versus those who resist it.

peace is maintained by the equilibrium of forces, and will continue just as long as this equilibrium exists, and no longer.

steam boiler, delivering so and so many pounds of steam to its engines as long as the envelope can contain the pressure; but let a breach in its continuity arise—relieving the boiling water of all restraint—and in a moment the whole mass flashes into vapour, developing a power no work of man can oppose.