Quotes About Duration

Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

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

O aching time! O moments big as years!

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

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

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

How long do you stay fresh in that can?

Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).

the longer wars last, the less popular they become.

I have no more notion than you how long it is to last, Holmes answered with some asperity. If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us.

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.

If God has respect to something in the creature, which he views as of everlasting duration, and as rising higher and higher through that infinite duration, and that not with constantly diminishing (but perhaps an increasing) celerity;114 then he has respect to it, as, in the whole, of infinite height; though there never will be any particular time when it can be said already to have come to such a height.

All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time.

This situation will last until the end of time. And it is to this situation that they owe the mishap of not perishing . . .

Between two beings susceptible of love, the duration of passion is in proportion to the original resistance of the woman, or to the obstacles which the accidents of social life put in the way of your happiness.

Me olvidé por un momento de que esa tristeza duraría mientras estuviese viva, de que nunca pasaría, y me dispuse a salir con él.

you'd think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together