Quotes About Duration

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

A woman's lust is for a short time

Temporal» pot significar qualsevol període de temps.

A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.

Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.

El trajecte serà curt, pensava. Tant de bo durés sempre!

familiar feeling pervaded the child: a strange, dreamy, troubling sense: of change in the midst of duration, of time as both flowing and persisting, of recurrence in continuity—these were sensations he had felt before on the like occasion, and both expected and longed for again, whenever the heirloom was displayed.

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.

La tierra tiene una antigüedad aproximada de cuatrocientos cincuenta millones de años, un lapso de tiempo prácticamente inconcebible.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

From "Ships" The marketplaces of the Imagination have shops that are grand and opulent, but not of any great duration. Their transactions are brief, they dispose of their merchandise swiftly, and they are immediately liquidated.

how long it took at this high altitude

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

It is not time that passes, but the existence of what is changable that passes in time.

It lasted for a long time, I believe. A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.

Even eternity doesn't last forever

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.