Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration. — David Niven Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to… — Friedrich Ruckert Copy Share Image
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session. — Lily Donaldson Copy Share Image
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. — William Law Copy Share Image
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
