By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in… — John Joly Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
