Duration Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Duration

Duration Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Duration quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. — Rita Coolidge

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. — Hannah Arendt

The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her. — Julianne Donaldson

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

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. — Aristotle.

Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army. — Louisa Young

Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations. — Debasish Mridha

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty

How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Matter and spirit are of equal duration; both are self-existent, - they never began to exist. — Terryl L. Givens

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

In 1338 Kingsai was visited by an earthquake of ten days' duration; — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

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

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood. — Hanif Kureishi

If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration. — Elizabeth Harrower

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit. — John Eldredge

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration. — T. S. Eliot

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on. — John Steinbeck

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore De Balzac

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world. — Debasish Mridha

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

How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel? — Sreesha Divakaran

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

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

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life. — R. Kent Hughes

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami

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

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

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. — Thomas Browne

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

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration. — Thomas Hardy

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

I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration. — Nanamoli Thera

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

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

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

But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends. — Jonathan Swift

There is nothing called a permanent love or a temporary love. Love is love. Love may be for a smaller duration or a longer duration. — Girdhar Joshi

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out — Seyi Ayoola

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. — Samuel Johnson

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

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — Seneca The Younger

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

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. — Seneca The Younger

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

The measures of a life is not in its duration but in its donation. — Debasish Mridha

The value of life is not in duration but in its donation. — Debasish Mridha

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. — Tibor Fischer

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

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

In God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration. — Eugenie De Guerin

We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct. — Ernest Cline

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded. — Debasish Mridha

Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy. — Timothy Snyder

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. — Richard Holbrooke

[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

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

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

(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time. — Vladimir Nabokov

It is not the duration but the donation for the humanity that determines the value of life. — Debasish Mridha

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

Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ] — Ursula K. Le Guin

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman

Love cannot be measured by its duration... — Hanif Kureishi

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

Love for shorter duration is going to be more intense and more fulfilling, and more memorable. — Girdhar Joshi

It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist. — William S. Burroughs

Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection. — Eric Greitens

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

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception. — Edmund Husserl

We all are passengers to a train called life, the duration & destination to which is pre-planned. — Nikhil Kushwaha

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

The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action. — Debasish Mridha

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

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