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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. -- Honore de Balzac
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. -- William Law
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. -- Baltasar Gracian
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing. -- Tracy Anderson
Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY. -- Alfred Jarry
Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life. What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it. -- Rick Warren
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. -- Marcus Aurelius
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. -- Seneca the Younger
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. -- Peter Marshall
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. -- Rick Warren
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. -- Benjamin Franklin
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. -- Richard Holbrooke
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. -- Criss Jami
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. -- Rita Coolidge
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. -- Tibor Fischer
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
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 duration. -- Hideki Tojo
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. -- DeWitt Clinton
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. -- John Joly
Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. -- Jessica Simpson
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. -- Myles Munroe
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. -- Hans Berger
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 a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. -- Steven Pressfield
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. -- David Ricardo
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life. -- Brian Tracy
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective. -- Myles Munroe
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. -- Thomas Browne
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. -- Robert Plant
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth. -- Charles Duke
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 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality. -- Kabir Bedi
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star. -- Roland Barthes
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over. -- Tom Hanks
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit. -- James Madison
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved. -- Harold Innis
Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything. -- Kevin DeYoung
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 mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks. -- Alan Watts
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. -- Nas
Love cannot be measured by its duration... -- Hanif Kureishi
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. -- Aristotle
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception. -- Edmund Husserl
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... -- Seneca the Younger
A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life. -- R. Kent Hughes
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. -- John Zimmerman
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. -- Samuel Johnson
in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration. -- Eugenie de Guerin
Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution. -- Debasish Mridha
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God determine the time and duration in the wilderness for every man. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I want people who are going to rock out for the duration. -- Torae
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. -- Myles Munroe
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. -- Lucretius
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. -- Fernando Pessoa
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit. -- John Eldredge
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. -- Roger Zelazny
If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration. -- Elizabeth Harrower
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. -- Emile M. Cioran
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. -- John Steinbeck
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. -- Russell M. Nelson
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. -- Charles Stross
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration. -- David Niven
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. -- Nicholas Culpeper
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. -- John Locke
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration. -- Antonin Artaud
I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session. -- Lily Donaldson
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. -- Julio Cortazar
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits. -- Radhanath Swami
For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. -- Terence McKenna
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. -- Albert Camus
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. -- Aldous Huxley
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. -- Elizur Wright
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. -- Mitch Daniels
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. -- John William Draper
Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out -- Seyi Ayoola
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time. -- S. Jay Olshansky
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty! -- Stephen Charnock
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. -- Friedrich Ruckert
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. -- Tennessee Williams
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors. -- Samuel Johnson
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. -- Hannah Arendt
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration. -- John Schlesinger
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. -- Viktor E. Frankl
You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. -- Cherie Carter-Scott
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 duration -- Hideki Tojo
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war. -- Richard Cobden
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended. -- John Cage
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration." -- DeWitt Clinton
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities. -- Alexander Hamilton
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. -- Philip Freneau
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight. -- Buzz Aldrin
Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different. -- Lisa Gansky
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 their own propaganda. -- Doris Lessing
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. -- Walter Savage Landor
Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives. -- Immanuel Kant
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be. -- Marcus Aurelius
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts. -- Susanna Kaysen
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness. -- Honore de Balzac
I want to conserve energy expenditure by reducing our air intake. Save lives by saving your I love yous and holding your breath for the duration of your relationship. -- Jarod Kintz
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar. -- Philip Sington
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. -- Epictetus
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. -- Lu Yen-hsun
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert. -- Hermann Hesse
America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. -- Nathanael Greene
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged "? to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. -- Hermann Hesse
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys. -- Thomas Traherne

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