#duration

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

#does #duration #earth #geological #immensity

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

#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity

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

#always #definitely #different #duration #huge

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#boasting #duration #family #makes #merit

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

#any #confidence #down #duration #government

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

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We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#boom #defeating #duration #generation #long

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

#ecstatic #enjoyment #frame #indefinite #knowledge

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

#carrying #clearing #doing #dress #duration

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#duration #friendship #life #loyalty #friendship