Duration Quotes - Page 5

• No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

  Annie Dillard

  Time Flies, Doe, Moments

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Love cannot be measured by its duration.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Thinking, Long

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Way

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies, animal magnetism, psychological concepts, quantum theory, mathematics or the so-called anthropomorphic principle) it is not a case that one of them is more 'true' than others, but a case of which theory or model you choose to believe in, or which theory you find most attractive. Indeed, from a Chaos Magic perspective, you can selectively believe that a particular theory or model of magical action is true only for the duration of a particular ritual or phase of work.

  Phil Hine

  Believe, Animal, Perspective

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• To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.

  Italo Calvino

  Opposites, Space, Gaps

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• Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

  Julio Cortazar

  Believe, Continuity Of Life, Seeing

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.66, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Sex, Views, Two

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• The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.

  Max Tundra

  Play, Numbers, Keys

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

  Z'EV

  Men, Play, Signatures

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

  Torae

  Rocks, People, Want

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

  Eddie George

  Player, Careers, Groups

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Class, People, Identity

  Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1955). “Imperialism and Social Classes: Two Essays”, p.126, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Prayer, Commitment, Prayer Life

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• What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project.

  Kris Kidd

  Unique, Numbers, Skills

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• Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Smart, Eye

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• My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

  Nas

  Wise, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Memory Lane, Album: Illmatic

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• Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Thinking, Age, Now Or Never

  Jonathan Edwards (2004). “Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition”, p.17, Waveland Press

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• The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

  John Locke

  Long, Important, Human Nature

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• I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Commitment, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• 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

  Sides, Bed, Tables

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

  Henry James

  Summer, Drawing, Shadow

  Henry James (1875). “Transatlantic Sketches”, p.54

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Exercise, Men, Guarantees

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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