Quotes About Continuity

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

The European Union is here to stay.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

I think L.A. actors don't have much continuity, so you kind of have to force the issue by doing plays and putting up scenes and staying in class.

The greatest legacy that I can have is to build a brand that lives beyond me and stays true to the DNA of the brand.

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.

History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.

Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.