Quotes About Duration

Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

In this respect, to convert is to locate oneself in a particular temporality and duration. This duration is that of the inexhaustible future constituted by the infinite, the time of eternity, the time that inaugurates divine existence and its extension in the redemption of the body; thus its final point of completion—if there is one—is the parousia.

Major: you have the honor to report that the numbers of men now under your command qualifies you for promotion to colonel. But you ask me to believe that your regiments assaulted Rebel forces in a pitched battle of over two hours duration, all the while steadily employing the heavy field pieces recently shipped to you, without one single battle death on either side . Sir, that is not warfare. That is fraternization with the enemy !

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

It feels like forever ago, but really it was just four years.

There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, and X years in a life. Solve for X.

Forever doesn't exist because it hasn't started yet.

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than six people killed every minute, for six long years.

connect two clauses, the second of which refers to something that results from the first: there was a flash flood and by the next morning the town was under water. - connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change: getting better and better. - connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent: I cried and cried. - used to connect two identical

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Televison is time bound. Whereas a movie has time. You can't write a script for television and keep it for one year.

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Technically, fish can last up to half a year in a freezer, but their quality starts to slide after the first month.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The universe was the application, running now for 13.9 billion years, leading up to this moment

Instituted in 212 BC after consulting the oracles of Marcius and the Sibyl, the Apollinarian Games at first took place on only one day (13 July), then three, and finally lasted from the 6 (if not the 5, in the calendar of Philocalus) to 13.

There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic.

How long was this one up there?' I said. 'Two or three days

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant.

How long is forever? Sometimes just one second