Continuous Quotes

535 quotes by 446 authors

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… — Arthur Koestler
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes… — Jean Cocteau
Thus, from the first divine contract, and the pure region where truth abides, a continuous chain of mercies and light extends to humanity, through every… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved… — Arthur Peacocke
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like… — Annie Dillard
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… — George Will
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks… — Stephen Jay Gould
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Continuous eloquence wearies. — Blaise Pascal
The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will. — Pat Robertson
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,… — Elizabeth Drew
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would… — Douglas Coupland
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung… — Louis Sullivan
I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and… — James Agee
I felt pressured by continuous touring. — Andy Partridge
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back… — Steve Sabol
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing… — Sukarno

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