Continuity Quotes

237 quotes by 201 authors

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have… — Philip K. Dick
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured… — Salman Rushdie
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. — Julio Cortazar
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on… — Joseph Conrad
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark....… — Andrew Carnegie
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… — Julia Cameron
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or… — Douglas Adams
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just… — Lauren Oliver
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for… — Saul Bellow
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help… — John Dewey
The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the… — Joseph Conrad
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a… — William S. Burroughs
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the… — George Orwell
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust

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