Duration Quotes - page 6

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)
If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration. View quote
Bob Black
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way? View quote
Marcus Aurelius
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished. View quote
Italo Calvino
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Satisfied that at this late hour, you will be more pleased to hear of your formal dissolution than of any thing else which could be uttered and as the time fixed by the Constitution for the duration of your session is about to expire, I announce the this House now stands adjourned. View quote
John M. Sandidge
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. View quote
Richard Holbrooke
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. View quote
Epictetus
Marriage is an estate of long duration, and one which should not be entered into lightly or without the approval of our closest friends and relatives. View quote
Marguerite de Navarre
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. View quote
Thomas Traherne
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. View quote
Seneca
As God has made the soul immortal, he has made the universe infinite, if it is true that eternity is nothing other than unlimited duration and infinity is space without limits. (Cyrano de Bergerac)
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over. View quote
Tom Hanks
In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the the big tree's five thousand years. View quote
Julian Huxley
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. View quote
Richard Cobden
Hey, what is this,” he asked. "I guess maybe you could call it like love,” Caroline said. "Whaddaya mean, love?” Chet asked. "Your contract expressly forbids you to fall in love during the duration of your tenth kill, and it furthermore explicitly forbids you to fall in love with your Victim.” "Love,” Caroline said coolly, "existed a long time before contracts. View quote
Robert Sheckley
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. View quote
Tibor Fischer
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. View quote
Robert Plant
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity in freedom. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The duration of religions has always been dependent on human need for them. Christianity has been a blessing for suffering humanity during eighteen centuries ; it has been providential, divine, holy. All that it has done in the interest of civilisation, curbing the strong and strengthening the weak, binding together the nations through a common sympathy and a common tongue, and all else that its apologists have urged in its praise all this is as nothing compared with that great consolation it has bestowed on man. Eternal praise is due to the symbol of that suffering God, the Saviour with the crown of thorns, the crucified Christ, whose blood was as a healing balm that flowed into the wounds of humanity. The poet especially must acknowledge with reverence the terrible sublimity of this symbol. (Heinrich Heine)
An hour's a symbolic duration. View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When, however, not more than half that duration of time had elapsed, a small ray of light broke in upon my gloom. I was reading, accidentally, Marmontel's "Mémoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them-would supply the place of all that they had lost. A vivid conception of the scene and its feelings came over me, and I was moved to tears. From this moment my been grew lighter. The oppression of the thought that all feeling was dead within me, was gone. I was no longer hopeless: I was not a stock or a stone. I had still, it seemed, some of the material out of which all worth of character, and all capacity for happiness, are made. View quote
John Stuart Mill
It is necessary that the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, eternal in their duration, be universal in their application, that being realized in institutions, law and customs, they spread over the surface of the globe and filter down to it's lowest strata. Only then shall the regeneration of man be accomplished. View quote
Francisco Luís Gomes