Top 100 Quotes About Duration
#2. Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John William Draper
#3. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#4. True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.
Lu Yen-hsun
#5. You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.
Paul Valery
#6. It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life.
Debasish Mridha
#7. I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.
Eddie George
#9. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt Clinton
#10. GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.
Robert Love
#11. The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which ... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger
#12. St. Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.
Graham Greene
#13. In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.
George William Norris
#14. Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and - Duration.
H.G.Wells
#15. If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.
Elizabeth Harrower
#16. How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?
Sreesha Divakaran
#17. Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.
David Beckett
#18. The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.
Max Tundra
#19. Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
Thomas Browne
#20. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#21. No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in ten years oneself, in a hundred years one's books, will not exist. Eternal duration is no more promised to books than it is to men.
Marcel Proust
#22. It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
Andre Maurois
#23. Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
David Ricardo
#24. I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before ... One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.
Cynthia Asquith
#25. Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#26. The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
H. P. Blavatsky
#27. Bob neither smoked nor drank. In public or at professional events, if he felt he had to consume alcohol, he would sometimes order one drink and nurse it for the duration of the event.
Carol M. Ford
#28. A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
Myles Munroe
#29. The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Criss Jami
#30. The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.
Ken Wilber
#31. The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me.
Joseph Heller
#32. (T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright
#34. The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
John Locke
#35. Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#36. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
Arthur Nersesian
#37. The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration.
T. S. Eliot
#38. Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly ... all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
Ari Fleischer
#39. The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.
Debasish Mridha
#40. God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
Rick Warren
#41. It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
Doris Lessing
#42. Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"
"I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours.
Mo Hayder
#43. It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
Nathanael Greene
#45. I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
David Mamet
#46. Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other's voices the partner intended for them by Providence, and to fly into a reciprocal and perfectly harmonious embrace. With most of us the courtship is of long duration.
Edwin A. Abbott
#47. By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
Lucretius
#48. The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.
Isaac Newton
#49. When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
#50. Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.
Abraham Lincoln
#51. Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.
John Schlesinger
#52. Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
Seneca The Younger
#53. Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.
Hermes Trismegistus
#54. You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy.
Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright."
"It makes me incapable of reason.
Nalini Singh
#55. The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast ... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
Andre Bazin
#56. Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#57. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
#58. The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.
Ted Merwin
#59. It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power ... it's the goodness.
Robert Plant
#60. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
Thomas Browne
#61. While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles Stross
#62. That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged - to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
Hermann Hesse
#63. Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."
H. P. Blavatsky
#64. Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before.
Thomas Paine
#65. It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.
Henri Bergson
#66. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D.H. Lawrence
#67. I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.
Henry George
#68. If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
Philip Freneau
#69. Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
David Niven
#70. When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
Barbara Kingsolver
#71. I crave time in all its duration, and I
want to be myself unconditionally.
Fernando Pessoa
#72. I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#73. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.
Marcus Aurelius
#74. This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
Thomas Traherne
#75. When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
Epictetus
#76. [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#77. During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration.
Paul P. Enns
#78. The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.
Eben Alexander
#79. Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.
Timothy Snyder
#80. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
Benjamin Franklin
#81. Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
Umberto Eco
#82. There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
Simone De Beauvoir
#83. In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.
Douglas Rushkoff
#84. The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.
Nicholas Carr
#85. The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
S. Jay Olshansky
#86. [Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.
Henri Bergson
#87. Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.
Philip Sington
#88. The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
Rita Coolidge
#89. Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog
H.L. Mencken
#90. There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.
Jack Vance
#91. She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.
Ayn Rand
#92. We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels
#93. Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
John Joly
#95. There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
Michael Nyman
#96. Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.
Jessica Simpson
#98. If man wishes to know anything about Creation (the time of Creation, the duration of Creation, the order of Creation, the methods of Creation, or anything else) his sole source of true information is that of divine revelation.
Henry M. Morris
#99. Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
Emile M. Cioran
#100. Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true
if only for the duration of the cruise.
Patricia Hagan
