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Quotes About Duration

Relevance always comes with a price and a shelf life.
~ Mark Leibovich
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
~ Garry Shandling
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
~ Rita Rudner
All right," she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.
~ Martha Wells
If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed that it could crush its opponents within a few months.
~ Martin Gilbert
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
~ D H Lawrence
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
~ Nick Faldo
How long this lasted I can't imagine, it wasn't an imaginary time, it also didn't belong to the time  of things that happen.
~ Maurice Blanchot
How long we live is much more important than how well we live!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?
~ Unknown
It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.
~ Michael Foley
A recent study of 150,000 Americans was able to examine the issue more thoroughly. Higher stroke rates were found among individuals sleeping six hours or less, or nine hours or more. Those at lowest risk got around seven or eight hours of sleep a night.
~ Michael Greger
Kiwi is one of the fruits I've prescribed to my patients with insomnia (two an hour before bedtime appears to significantly improve sleep onset, duration, and efficiency)
~ Michael Greger
zinc has displayed virus-inhibiting activity. In one double-blind clinical study, zinc supplementation significantly reduced the average duration of colds by seven days.
~ Unknown
beds last on an average much longer than marriages...
~ Michel Houellebecq
Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.
~ Mike Carey
A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.
~ Unknown
Just a sec. Just two months. Just a lifetime. Just a sec.
~ Miranda July
Probavni sistemi koji traju jedva pet-šest decenija misle da su Spomenici ?ija ?e slava zra?iti još milenije.
~ Miroslav Krleža
The period required to eliminate THC from the body should not be confused with the duration of the drug's psychoactive effects. People stop feeling high long before THC has left their bodies.
~ Unknown
Baz? anlar kendili?inden uzar. Öyle oluyor. An uzuyor. ?çinde bulundu?u an, bütün hayat?na yay?l?rcas?na uzuyor.
~ Unknown
The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.
~ Niall Ferguson