Duration quotes
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
-- Albert Camus -
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
-- Alfred Jarry -
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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
-- Antonin Artaud -
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 -
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
-- Aristotle -
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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 -
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.
-- Camille Flammarion -
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
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Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
-- David Niven -
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
-- Edmund Husserl -
The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.
-- Elinor Glyn -
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 -
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Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.
-- Eric Maisel -
in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.
-- Eugenie de Guerin -
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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 -
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Love cannot be measured by its duration...
-- Hanif Kureishi -
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 -
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.
-- John Eldredge -
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
-- John William Draper -
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However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
-- Julio Cortazar -
I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.
-- Lily Donaldson -
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 -
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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 -
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
-- Nicholas Culpeper -
We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
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 -
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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 -
A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
-- R. Kent Hughes -
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.
-- Raj Chetty -
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
-- Rick Warren -
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With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
-- Thomas Malthus -
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 -
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.
-- Victor J. Stenger -
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
