Duration Quote by Louisa Young

I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

— Oliver Stone

“with that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war. As the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I've done quite a few gigs for the military. Some of them had to be kept under the wire. I'm a three year Army…

— Michael Buffer

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it…

— Hermann Hesse

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…

— Thomas Browne

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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