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..

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict….

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible..

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration..

Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we f….

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 myst….

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema reali….

The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all….

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death..

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling..

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits..

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity..

Shamefulness is always a huge part of my characterizations. I like protagonists that reveal, either through "honesty" in their various thought proces….

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death..

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood..

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 ….

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the p….

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration..

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration..

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit ver….

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration..