Quotes About Continuity

Real problems follow upon each other in a way which makes sense to the intellectual imagination.

Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of emotion passes. Though that emotion is ever changing as flowing water changes, it at least bears us along on a current that gives the illusion of continuity and permanence. But analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soul.

The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.

Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child's development as all but the most basic food and shelter.

First, we must recognize his own sense of continuity with his heritage. Paul sees himself and his churches as being in a direct line with the people of God in the Old Testament; and despite his deep convictions about the radical implications of the coming of Christ and the Spirit, he regularly reaffirms that continuity. He includes a primarily Gentile church in the events of the exodus: "all our forefathers were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Cor 10:1–2).

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Life ended, but politics continued.

spring will come, the soil will seed itself, that flood or drought will abate, and life goes on in that new landscape.

I'm in favor or tradition. I'm respectful of and a lover of the tradition. There's no deconstruction without the memory of the tradition.

And wherever you go on the face of the earth have the humility to think that a thousand years ago someone pretty much like you stood there and a thousand years from now a boy like you will be there. And in two thousand years boys and places and people will have been pretty much the same.

I have no hope that the white man can ever say something and mean it, because we never deal with the same white man. One makes the treaty, and he goes. Another comes, but he never heard of the treaty. With us it is different. When the calumet passes, every Arapaho now and to be born is bound.

That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

Nothing ever goes away

Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change—a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.

This rare ability to manage continuity and change—requiring a consciously practiced discipline—is closely linked to the ability to develop a vision.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.