Quotes About Duration

Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.

It already felt a lifetime ago, prison years being like dog years.

peace is maintained by the equilibrium of forces, and will continue just as long as this equilibrium exists, and no longer.

For everything that moves, time passes more slowly.

A moving object therefore experiences a shorter duration than a stationary one: a watch marks fewer seconds, a plant grows more slowly, a young man dreams less. For a moving object, time contracts.

If by "time" we mean nothing more than happening, then everything is time. There is only that which exists in time.

There is our past: all the events that happened before what we can witness now. There is our future: the events that will happen after the moment from which we can see the here and now. Between this past and this future there is an interval that is neither past nor future and still has a duration: fifteen minutes on Mars; eight years on Proxima b; millions of years in the Andromeda galaxy. It is the expanded present.28 It is perhaps the greatest and strangest of Einstein's discoveries.

The physical substratum that determines duration and physical intervals—the gravitational field—does not only have a dynamic influenced by masses; it is also a quantum entity that does not have determined values until it interacts with something else. When it does, the durations are granular and determinate only for that something with which it interacts; they remain indeterminate for the rest of the universe.

But on the moon, the duration of the "extended present" is a few seconds, and on Mars it is a quarter of an hour. This means we can say that on Mars there are events that in this precise moment have already happened, events that are yet to happen, but also a quarter-of-an-hour of events during which things occur that are neither in our past nor in our future.

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The longest day is soon ended.

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

You have to be naked with somebody for more than two hours for them to qualify as an ex. It's a law.

I don't know if it's scientifically possible, but I swear there's about six months' worth of trapped boy-farts in this room.

Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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.