Quotes About Continuity

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

One of the world's most successful and yet mysterious companies in the world, Samsung Electronics, has been operating without its leader for months and likely will continue to do so for some time to come.

El sufrimiento -por curioso que esto pueda parecerte- es el medio por el que existimos, y es el único medio por el que somos conscientes de existir; y el recuerdo del sufrimiento en el pasado nos es necesario como garantía, evidencia, de nuestra identidad continuada.

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but 'progress' — the mechanical movement of a clock hand, not the sacred succession of interlinked events.

Alles verändert sich nur, nichts stirbt.

Then heaven bless it, and may it continue to bind indefinitely. Fate's happenstance may oft win more than toil, as the fellow said.

If you send them your loving thoughts continuously now, someday you will surely meet them again. You will know that this life is not the end, but merely one link in the eternal chain of your relationship with your loved ones.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Does a human life, a personality, exist as a single thread that can be followed through time? Is the me of 20 years ago the same me that exists now? Will I still be me in 20 years?

Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go – as long as you don't stop!

"The you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the you I'll be in love with tomorrow."

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

Whatever age we are is the age we've always been.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.As quoted in The Gentle Philosopher Will Durant