Top 278 Duration Quotes & Sayings

When one gets time duration, one becomes very restricted, and hence, creativity suffers.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

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

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

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.

Love cannot be measured by its duration.

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

My work is such that I can never be in one place for a long duration.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

If you have good gear and shoes, you can go for long runs and sustain yourself for a longer duration.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

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

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.