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I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
rosa parks— Quoted in "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here," from Life Magazine (1991)
May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.
Sir Don(ald George) Bradman— 1958 The Art of Cricket.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Somerset Maugham
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.
jerry brown— Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Corporate Power", We the People Radio Network archives, February/March 1996
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
Elizabeth Janeway— Quoted in Helen Hull (ed), The Writer's Book (1950), chapter 32.
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.
Bill Bryson— Page 380 (A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003))
We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
william o. douglas— Points of Rebellion (1969).
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent: deliberation, which those who begin it by prudence , and continue it with subtlety, must, after long experience of thought conclude by chance. To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reason, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us.
— Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ..., T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811, p.135
Despite overwhelming evidence from urological surgeons that neoplasm of the penis is a lethal disease that can be prevented by removal of the foreskin, some physicians continue to argue against routine circumcision in a highly emotional and aggressive fashion.
— Dr Dagher, Journal of Urology, 1973
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
b. f. skinner— American psychologist, behaviorist, author, and inventor
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory. But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.
val logsdon fitch— Nobel Prize Autobiography (1981).
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.
jomo kenyatta— (1974) cited by David Crystal, "English as a Global Language" (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521530323, p. 124.
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
nikola tesla— On being informed that Marconi was transmitting wireless messages across the Atlantic Ocean, as quoted in "Who Invented Radio?" at PBS.org, and in Tesla : The Modern Sorcerer (1999) by Daniel Blair Stewart, p. 371
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
susan b. anthony— Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (20 June 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (3 July 1873)
We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization , a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and in contrast with Islamic countries respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance ... The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam , firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
Silvio Berlusconi— In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001)
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
abraham joshua heschel— Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
Relationships between our ethnic communities are generally good but we need to continue weaving connections to the point where they are interwoven and unbreakable.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005
The strength of Commonwealth lies in its diversity and it to be mindful of bearing economic, social, political and cultural systems which comprise its membership ... Its commonality lies in its connection to humanity, in the main it has provided an invariable forum whose members to open and continue meaningful issues of concern.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005
I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom , justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
malcolm (malcolm little) x— January 1965, p. 216
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.
muhammad reza pahlavi— As quoted in Jimmy Carter (1995), Keeping faith: memoirs of a president, page 444
A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Notes.
The use of “hacker” to mean “security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two.
richard m. stallman— The GNU Project
"Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it..."
daniel suarez— Chapter 31: Red Queen Hypothesis, Character: Sobol
Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.
neil degrasse tyson— Comment on "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA" (March 01, 2012).
It is a place where many, many things happened since the 12th Century. A place of knowledge... a place that tells us a lot about how great the African people were and continue to be. We need to save Timbuktu.
— The head of the mission to rebuild Timbuktu, Lazare Eloundou Assomo, quoted on BBC News, "Timbuktu damage to Mali historic sites 'underestimated'", June 11, 2013.
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
— Chaim Potok. Quoted in: 99 Things to Do Between Here and Heaven. Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone. Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. ISBN: 0664233244, page 61.
As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change... I will always keep falling in love with you.
Karen Clodfelde— As quoted in Fifty Years of Living, Laughing and Loving: The Beginning, by Amanda M. Davis (2014, pg. 284).
Though the moral law has ceased as a covenant, it remains as a rule of life. It will forever continue as the standard of holiness.
— Charles Backus, p. 375. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt and Rome have all disappeared from this world, but the elements of our civilization still continue. Although world-events have been inimical to us for centuries, there is something in our civilization which has withstood these onslaughts.
— Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938), Vedic Revelations
