Quotes About Duration

Happy life years can be seen as happiness-adjusted life expectancy. The measurement has a powerful logic to it. It recognizes that a satisfying life is not ideal if it is short; and that a long life is not ideal if it is miserable.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night ? the duration of sleep eternal.

He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

O tempo, esse grande ladrão, rouba continuamente; mas uma coisa é ser despojado com magnificência e envelhecer com a consciência de uma existência plena e rica, outra é ser roído miseravelmente hora após hora por coisas que de todo não conhecemos. O inferno dos contemporâneos chama-se monotonia. O paraíso que procuram a plenitude. Existem aqueles que viveram e aqueles que duraram.

All things die, Mercy. Some just takes longer than others. (Charles)

Some people have trouble sleeping at night, even if they microdose in the morning. This is especially common with LSD due to its longer duration. If you find this to be a problem, it may be worth switching to psilocybin.

Take a second to recall your last holiday. How much did you enjoy it? Would you go back again? If you are anything like other people, two factors will explain your answers: the peak moment of pleasure or pain and the final moment of pleasure or pain. This is known as the peak-end effect.50 Further, your overall assessment of an experience doesn't even pay that much attention to how long it lasted. This is known as duration neglect.

T]he ABCP market was built on a fatal flaw: a significant mismatch between the duration of the underlying assets (long-term) and the duration of the paper itself (short-term). While this structure is not unusual -- banks use it all the time -- the crucial difference is that banks have a strong liquidity provider in the event of a problem: the Bank of Canada. The trusts, however, were left in limbo.

The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.

Now the duration of the Israelitesí stay in Egypt was 430 years.

Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

The length of Davidís reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.

and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmotherís name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

So the duration of Jehuís reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His motherís name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.