Duration Quotes

Duration Quote of the day

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.

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.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

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

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

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.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

Love cannot be measured by its duration.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

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.

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.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

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.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

[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.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.