Continuity Quotes
37 quotes
"We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)"
"Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal."
"I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom."
"Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others."
"Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon"
"The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks."
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign"
"He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst."
"The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis"
"Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes"
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it."
"Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again."
"If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction."
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
"I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away"
"It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters."
"There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous aether, indeterminate,Yet linked with all the laws of time and space.A faint, veiled sign of continuitiesThat outward eyes can never quite descry;Of locked dimensions harboring years gone by,And out of reach except for hidden keys."
"He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed."
"The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome."
Robert J. Allison, Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies
"She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all that Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death."
"All continuous suffering, is self inflicted."
"Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky."
"Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion."
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket"
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past."
George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
"Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?"
"Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure."
"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing."
"The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity."
"All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home."
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility."
"America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin"
H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
"(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before."
"We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity"
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
"If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern."
"Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?"
"Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words."
"Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission."