Duration
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
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Duration Quotations
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac
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
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
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels
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
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
Duration Translations
duration in German is Dauer
duration in Italian is durata
duration in Latin is tentatio-onis
duration in Norwegian is varighet
duration in Swedish is varaktighet
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