Quotes About Duration

Diabetics are already at risk for heart disease; if you're diabetic, your doctor may rule out estrogen. Having more than a drink and a half a day of alcohol also increases your risk of breast cancer. Experts generally suggest stopping hormones by age 60; total duration should be less than five years.

The method by which Nature proceeds is invariable. First she watches over the conservation of the individualities she has called out, then she takes care of the species to which they belong, and lastly, she assigns to all their places and their functions in the scale of creatures. Thus, she introduces into the world duration, stability, and unity.

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

En la reminiscencia, en efecto, el alma tiene el pensamiento de esta sensación, pero no en la continuidad de su duración. Así, la idea de la sensación no es la duración misma de la sensación, es decir, ella no es propiamente su memoria. En cuanto a saber si las ideas mismas están sujetas a alguna corrupción, lo veremos en la Filosofía.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

People want to see me for at least two hours uninterrupted in a Hindi film.

Why is gold called ??? (zahab)? Because there are three principles contained in it: the masculine, zakhar, and the ? (zayin) points to that; the soul, and the ? (he), points to that [obviously the feminine, since the consonant he in the mysticism of the alphabet has always been interpreted as such]; … and ? (bet) avouches its duration, as is written [in the Torah, which starts with this letter]: "in the beginning.

twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.

My average duration in a job is more like six months, because I've done crisis and turnaround stuff for two decades. I've been in a lot of companies and not-for-profits and institutions that were really on fire; in a lot of ways, the Senate is the least urgent, least serious institution I've ever worked in.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Every reading is different as far as timing, so some will last a half hour and others will last three hours.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.

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

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.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.