Duration Quote by Baltasar Gracian

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

— Baltasar Gracian

“But slowly, I was beginning to feel lighter, like I'd just put down something that I'd been carrying for so long, I hadn't realized…

— Morgan Matson

“Sometimes I don't know anymore if it really is love. I have been carrying it for so long.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“His smile is sad. “You've been carrying it for a long time, Emma. Let someone else carry it for a while.”

— M.K. Schiller

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.”

— Thomas Hardy

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the…

— Henry George

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;…

— Teresa of Avila

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with…

— Andre Maurois

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

— Raj Chetty

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000…

— S. Jay Olshansky

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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

— Benjamin Franklin