Quotes About Duration

The low sky was oppressive, the color of ashes, as it would be for a long time

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.

Free blacks tended to enlist for "three years or the duration" while slaves promised to serve until the end as a condition of obtaining their freedom.

The next hour was three hours long

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Each individual goes on for an unpredictable time. Unpredictable on any particular occasion, that is, but averaging the true value of the resource

Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the value-forming substance, the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

It is not the duration but the donation of life that matters the most.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Le corps dominait seul son royaume, celui des émotions et de la durée des chagrins.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.