Continuity Quotes · Page 3

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

— Dean Rusk

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

— John Lone

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,…

— Germaine Greer

People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to…

— Richard Armitage

That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the…

— Pete Lembo

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

— Nicolae Ceausescu

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and…

— Maggie Kuhn

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the…

— Earle Brown

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

— Elvis Costello

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing…

— David Levithan

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up…

— Matthew Macfadyen

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye…

— William Hogarth

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving…

— Walter Lippmann

“She saw her sitting with her son in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being…

— Virginia Woolf

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with…

— Marcus Aurelius

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It…

— John Thorn

In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism…

— Michael Denton

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger…

— John Dos Passos

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time…

— Arthur Koestler

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the…

— Pat Conroy

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame…

— Dean Koontz

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change…

— Pat Gillick

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of…

— John Perry Barlow

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

— Jose Saramago

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where…

— Neil Gaiman

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

— Marcel Proust

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

— Rebecca Horn

I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.

— Dave Filoni

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

— Sandra Bernhard

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong…

— Gail Fine

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

— Frederick Lenz

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

— Sharon Salzberg

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

— E. B. White

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

— Bertrand Russell

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

— Julio Cortazar

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of…

— Edmund Leach