Quotes About Duration

history takes a long time to happen.

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Yo sentía el transcurso, la esencia del tiempo en sus repeticiones. Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Forever turned out to be too long.

Forever as it turns out, is a very long time.

That's the thing about dying. Nobody knows how long it takes.

Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas.

Thus, in so far as time is constituted by duration, there is the same necessity for distinguishing a public and a private time as there was in the case of space. But in so far as time consists in an order of before and after, there is no need to make such a distinction; the time-order which events seem to have is, so far as we can see, the same as the time-order which they do have.

The days that marked the war went on like the ticking of a clock that had no face and showed no time.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

I couldn't let you believe we'd keep going, when we'd already lasted too long.

IF A CLIENT HAS A PHYSICAL SYMPTOM How long has she had it? How often does it occur? How much does it interfere with her daily life? Has she seen a doctor?

Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren't measured in hours, days, and years.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Most people should not do aerobic exercises for more than 30 minutes, because after that your chances of injury increase.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

Julieta, la noche no es un momento, pero un momento puede durar toda la noche.

The movement of history is slow and covers vast reaches of time: to cross it requires seven-league boots.

Tu connais la différence entre l'amour et l'herpès ? L'herpès dure toute la vie.