Duration Quotes

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

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.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

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.

Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

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.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

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.

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.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

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.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Never let the weight of challenges and the duration of your dreams scare you to give up.

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

[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.

The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.

Be Creative, consume time, don't let the time consumes you..

It is not the duration but the donation of life that matters the most.