Quotes About Span

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

From Dan even to Beersheba.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

Oh what a nothing is our life!--namely, a span, a dream, a wind, a shadow, a vapour, a post, swifter than a post (Job 7:6).

It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.

The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds—the same as a goldfish.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span we need to increase our health span at the same time.

In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

I've spent enough years bustling about in vanity, heaping up stuff that will only end up on the ash heap one day. Should you give me one more, ten more, twenty-five more years, how can the gospel of your kingdom and the riches of your grace claim and fill the span of those very brief years?

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Hierarchies are 'dissectible' into their constituent branches, on which the holons form the 'nodes'. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises is called its 'depth', and the number of holons on any given level its 'span'.

measuring duration of time.

There was no pain when I awoke, No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, Spurred my eyes open -- and light broke Upon them like a million swords: And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span. And ever.