Duration Quote by Nicholas Culpeper

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well --…

— Matthew Arnold

“I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps.”

— August Wilson

Because I am southern, I love serving mint juleps in silver cups with a sprig of mint as guests enter.

— Tinsley Mortimer

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a…

— Charles Duke

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