Definition of Duration

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Definition of Duration
	Duration The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. Related Definitions: Anything, Continuance, During, In, Lasting, Of, Or, Portion, Quality, State, The, Time, Which

Duration Quotations

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 life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
David Ricardo

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom

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

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac

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

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

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

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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