Limited Duration Quotes

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Good things only can last so long.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

I wanted to stay this way forever. Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.

When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

Coalitions, though successful, have always found that their triumph has been brief.

I believe that everything has a shelf life.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Three, four, five years, we’re out of here. You know what I’m saying? It’s a TV show. This thing ain’t gonna last forever. No way.

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

The future of the West is not a limitless tending upwards and onwards for all time towards our presents ideals, but a single phenomenon of history, strictly limited and defined as to form and duration, which covers a few centuries

Time is numbered only to man.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.