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Quotes About Continuity

Die Welt ist ein einziger unaufhörlicher Querverweis.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
~ Charles Babbage
There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only literary.
~ Charles Fort
Forever – is composed of Nows – 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years...
~ Emily Dickinson, c.1862
Crises of expression and spasms of eros:that's the man of today,the inside a vacuum,the continuity of personalityprovided by his suit,which with stout cloth might be good for ten years.
~ Gottfried Benn
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
~ Grace Paley
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
~ Graham Greene
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus
~ Graham McNeill
Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.
~ Greg Bear
Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal humanity. And finally, again…the sun.
~ Greg Cox
Peer shook his head. "What have I become, already? An endless series of people – all happy for their own private reasons. Linked together by the faintest thread of memory. Why keep them spread out in time? Why go on pretending that there's one 'real' person, enduring through all those arbitrary changes?
~ Greg Egan
Every story has a structure. Most simply, a beginning, a middle, and an end—although, as Bilbo recognizes in The Lord of the Rings, the story never really ends, and there is always something that came before the beginning of any tale we might tell.
~ Greg Paul
This question turns on one point. We must decide whether the children of believers are to be treated the same way as they were in the Old Testament. So, we must determine whether the New Testament teaches a change on the status of believers' children. Is there continuity or discontinuity on the inclusion of believers' children into the new covenant, and thus new covenant signs and rites?
~ Gregg Strawbridge
Biblical signs were given corporately to families in the Old Testament. Has that changed? This is a question of continuity. Baptism is similar to other faith rites in the Old Testament. Rituals which involve a symbolic act, such as baptism, are connected to Biblical covenants. Biblical covenants include signs to visibly represent the realities behind the covenant promises.
~ Gregg Strawbridge
Not all engagement with our past is characterized by crisis.
~ Gregory Orr
U svakom slu?aju, on je bio tog uverenja da ništa nije zauvek i definitivno završeno.
~ Guillaume Musso
Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Sabemos que no hay inicios de los tiempos; los tiempos son un continuo que la memoria marca para darse un orden y otorgar un sentido a lo que no tiene sentido.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
As you are now so once were we.
~ James Joyce
Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.
~ James Lee Burke
But as William Faulkner said, and as I was about to learn, the past is not only still with us, the past is not even the past. The warning call from Wally
~ James Lee Burke
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
~ James P. Carse
Only that which can change can continue.
~ James P. Carse
Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.
~ James P. Carse