Duration Quotes

179 quotes by 159 authors

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY. — Alfred Jarry
For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing… — Ezra Taft Benson
I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before… — Cynthia Asquith
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… — Doris Lessing
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,… — Robert Solow
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write… — Ronald Dworkin
Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may… — Rob Jackson
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. — Abraham Lincoln
Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on… — Steven Pressfield
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. — Rick Warren
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long… — Hideki Tojo
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill… — Sam Houston
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you… — Michael Nyman
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a… — Camille Flammarion
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet… — Teresa of Avila
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception. — Edmund Husserl
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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