Quotes by Duration We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life. Orison Swett Marden durationwastetime During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness. ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration. Paul P. Enns covenantdurationisrael 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 durationdesireheart 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 clearing-outdurationmovie In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits. Radhanath Swami kalidurationlife-is-short It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. Raj Chetty durationunemploymentbenefits Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. Ralph Waldo Emerson durationsoulwould-be What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Rick Warren durationwhat-mattersmatter Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. Roger Zelazny durationsleepneeds Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. Seneca the Younger durationpowerlong Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration. Seneca the Younger durationviolencelong 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 durationsugarjars 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 prisonerdurationcells To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief. Thomas Browne durationexpectationsmemories 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 durationspacejoy I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory. Thomas Jefferson durationagehands Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. Ursula K. Le Guin cosmosdurationanswers 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 durationjoythinking The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. Peter Marshall measuredurationdonationlife«1234
