Quotes About Duration

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

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.

A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

It is important to understand that the duration of exercise matters far more than does the intensity of exercise with respect to the goal of enhancing fatigue resistance in the brain. What counts is not how hard the muscles are working but rather how long the brain is required to stay focused on the task at hand. In fact, research has shown that the brain can be fatigued at rest in a way that increases fatigue resistance and physical endurance.

some relatively brief survival experiences were in many ways more challenging than some lengthy ones. What is important about an event is not its duration but what survivors discover from the journey.

you will always have to find out whether a need is transient or persistent

A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.

But our intuitive conception of time differs from the ceaseless cosmic stream envisioned by Newton and Kant. To begin with, our experience of the present is not an infinitesimal instant. Instead it embraces some minimum duration, a moving window on life in which we apprehend not just the instantaneous now but a bit of the recent past and a bit of the impending future.

With a constant probability of ending every year, a war is most likely to end after its first year, slightly less likely to end within two years, a bit less likely to stretch on to three, and so on.

But no matter how finely calibrated our clocks are, they are always measuring something discrete—an interval, a repeating signal, a duration between events. This is the heart of the problem: We measure time as a duration and think of motion as continuous. The best definition of motion we have is intricately tangled between the discrete and continuous impressions of time and space.

We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.

I knew there was probably life elsewhere. But given the vast size and age of the universe, I also knew how astronomically unlikely it was we would ever make contact with it, much less within the narrow window of my own lifetime. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.

The present is the only things that has no end.

How can I render uninterrupted interrogation that has been lasting the last 7 years? That's like asking Charlie Sheen how many women he dated.

Although some people are under the impression that John and I spent our entire year-and-a-half together in L.A., we spent only about seven months there, from September 1973, with many long breaks back in New York.

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

But if metaphysics is to proceed by intuition, if intuition has the mobility of duration as its object, and if duration is of a psychical nature, shall we not be confining the philosopher to the exclusive contemplation of himself?

Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

History is a long time in the making.