Quotes About Duration

El amor dura lo que tiene que durar, me da lo mismo.

He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.

For a while' in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years.

You can't keep counting forever

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

It is living, breathing, walking, and talking. Only we cannot see it, because it is happening too slowly. Rock has a lifespan of three billion years. we have a lifespan of sixty or seventy years. And the rock is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Your life is short, son. Ours is long. Much too long. But we both live in time. You a short time. We a long time.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

I used to make love to Green Day's music. But 9 minutes? I'm not Superman.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 percent of the Earth's history.

True smiles are brief—between two-thirds of a second and four seconds. That's why a held smile begins to look menacing. A true smile is the one expression that we cannot fake.

past. Often a space-waster, as in this example: 'She has been a teacher at the school for the past 20 years' (Independent). In this sentence, and in countless others like it, 'the past' could be deleted without any loss of sense.

But how many more deaths?" Trump asked. "How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree are of equal duration.

Todo dura siempre un poco mas de lo que debería

Todo dura siempre un poco más de lo que debería.

Inercia. Todo dura siempre un poco más de lo que debería.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. Happy was she who was in the room, who had the freedom of the city in everything that she touched or came in contact with, a fish swimming downstream, a leaf on a tree, a cloud in the sky, an image in a poem. Fish, leaf, cloud, image: that's it precisely, unless…

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand - once passed, I thought, time was all the same, all over.

Demorou uma eternidade e acabou num instante.