Duration Quotations | Page 2

The long end of the curve is very cheap. We are maintaining our long duration position in Treasuries.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

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

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

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

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

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

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

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

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.

The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

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

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

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

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

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

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

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.

Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change.

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

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.