Quotes About Duration

I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

Geological time is not money.

Time passed so much more slowly than space.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

It was the best time of her life. But it was bombing carpet. Make no mistake. Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

In general, however, grand opera, by more and more deadening our musical receptivity through its three-hours duration and at the same time putting our patience to the test through the snail's pace of what is usually a very trite action, is in itself intrinsically and essentially boring; which failing can be overcome only by the excessive excellence of an individual achievement: that is why in this genre only the masterpieces are enjoyable and everything mediocre is unendurable.

Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these, the persistence of substance during alteration of state.

What's the shortest time you've seen and the longest time you've seen for people who took no treatment? Three months was the shortest, she said, three years the longest. And with treatment? She got mumbly. Finally she said that the longest might not have been that much more than three years. But with treatment, the average should shift toward the longer end.

We believe that having a longer duration of pain is worse than a shorter duration and that having a greater average level of pain is worse than having a lower average level. But this wasn't what the patients reported at all. Their final ratings largely ignored the duration of pain. Instead, the ratings were predicted by what Kahneman termed the "Peak-End rule": an average of the pain experienced at just two moments - the single worst moment of the procedure and the very end.

But is this really going to be effective and worthwhile over a forty-year span?

Things just keep going.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

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

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

The morning dragged and lasted two years.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

The most recent data available from the U.S. Census's SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two months or more between 2009 and 2011. In contrast, just 10 million people, less than 4 percent of the population, were poor for the entire three years.

measuring duration of time.

Bad timing can stay bad for a long time.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.