95 Borrowed Time Quotes
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Famous Borrowed Time Quotes
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. — Norton Juster
the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon. — Ogden Nash
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. — Rod Stewart
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance. — Ben Feldman
It is too late to spare when all is spent — Irish Proverbs
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
One cannot charm or seduce their way out of lost time. Time has no mercy for those who take it for granted. — Patrick Bet-David
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. — Terry Pratchett
So maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all. — Oliver Burkeman
As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious. — Nancy Reagan
They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back — J. Cole
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. — Josh Billings
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. — Will Rogers
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. — Jeremy Taylor
Short Borrowed Time Quotes
- Punctuality is the thief of time — Oscar Wilde
- Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin
- Time stays long enough for those who use it. — Leonardo da Vinci
- Tempus fugit (time flies). — Ovid
- Lost time is never found again. — Proverbs
- We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood
- Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. — Dion Boucicault
- Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift. — Ebenezer Elliott
Borrowed Time Image Quotes
Living On Borrowed Time Quotes
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. — Agatha Christie
Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking. — Kate Jacobs
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive. — Jason Gray
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. — Agatha Christie
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. — Steven Squyres
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. — Steve Squyres
Just Give Me Time Quotes
The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's? — Paul Tudor Jones
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. — Mary J. Blige
Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY! — Dylan Moran
Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily. — Jack Johnson
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable. — Albert Camus
I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer. — John Fogerty
It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change. — Arthur J. Deikman
Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive. — Clayton Kershaw
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it. — Christine Warren
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time. — James Nares
Borrowed Money Quotes
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
Instead of saving for the possibility of a rainy day, fiat makes you borrow against all of your future sunny days. — Saifedean Ammous
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. — Al Gore
Food price inflation is running at 13% in Ireland. The people creating policy are laughably unserious. The government is borrowing money to give to farmers to destroy the food supply. This is Robert Mugabe economic policy. — Philip Pilkington
I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it. — Mitt Romney
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. — Richard Pryor
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. — Scottish Proverbs
Literally at the end of 2019, our cash flow was low... We had to borrow a little money to keep filming. — MrBeast
People Writing About Borrowed Time
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Norton Juster |
94 | 752 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Ogden Nash |
210 | 1738 |
 Rod Stewart |
163 | 1666 |
 Ben Feldman |
46 | 734 |
 Irish Proverbs |
107 | 8 |
More Borrowed Time Quotes
We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers. — Jerome Powell
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. — Grace Paley
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. — Maureen O'Hara
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake. — George Friedman
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness. — Ernst Junger
When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time. — Jay Shetty
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. — William Shakespeare
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. — Robert Townsend
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing. — Margaret Thatcher
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. — Cormac McCarthy
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more. — André Aciman
Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent. — James Coburn
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life. — Will Rogers
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints. — Mark Knopfler
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. — David Dinkins
The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. — Howard Warren Buffett
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more. — Will Rogers
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. — James Weldon Johnson
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had Passed over many a time. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished, As much as if it had a thousand acres Of untrodden space around it, and never Knew the danger it incurred. It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an Evil fate by apprehending it. — Henry David Thoreau
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time. — Will Rogers
A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it. — Unknown
I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana. — Peter McWilliams
I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay. — Bill Crow
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. — Warren Buffett
Quantitatve easing is NOT going away. Every major country is running a deficit. If they are all net borrowers then who is the lender? The central banks. For this reason – QE is not going away for a long time. — Jeffrey Gundlach
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world. — Emily Giffin
We started in our living room on a card table in our living room, and we have a multi-million dollar company and we know it can be done without borrowing a dime. It takes a while to get it started and to turn the wheel over, but the next time it's easier and the next few hundred times, it's easier than that. Have a budget where you reinvest a percentage of every dollar you earn to grow it. — Dave Ramsey
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true. — Demosthenes
I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yours–which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes. — Victoria Alexander
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest. — Mitt Romney
It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon. — Dudley North
There were many low points and times I doubted myself at work. I've heard no many more times than I've heard yes and there have been long periods in between jobs where money became very tight and I wondered how I was going to pay my bills. I've had to borrow money from friends and family to get by sometimes. That's the part of the 'overnight' success that people don't see. The struggle is real. — Melanie Nicholls-King
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time. — George Osborne
At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time. — Paul Laffoley
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