Continuity Quotes - Page 5

• Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

  Julian Jaynes

  Twins, Evolution, Problem

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Different, Reincarnation

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• The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Cutting, Ideas

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.

  Ross Douthat

  Mother, Historical, Catholic

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Ducks, Fleeting

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• 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 continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Fall, Blow

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• 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 mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• 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 only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

  Philip K. Dick

  Past, Wicked, Littles

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Now Wait for Last Year”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

  John Dewey

  Environment, Individual, Surroundings

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Awareness

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• Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Science

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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  John Hodgman

  Stars, Believe, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Self, Essence

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• I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Couple, Years, Progress

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

  Julio Cortazar

  Believe, Continuity Of Life, Duration

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.66, Everyman's Library

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• Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

  Ron Loewinsohn

  People, Hunger

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• 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)

  Julia Cameron

  Distance, Loneliness, Bridges

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.161, Penguin

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• 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 expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

  Joseph Conrad

  Law, Justice, Principles

  Joseph Conrad (1996). “Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

  Andres Segovia

  Originals, Hard

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• Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

  Leon Botstein

  Character, Like Love, Resilience

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