Per Diem Quotes

#1. When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

Jack McBrayer

#2. Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

Dean Norris

#3. For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Chick Hearn

#5. Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

Seanan McGuire

#6. Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Robin Williams

#7. Per Diem 10 dites/day Visitors' Card 75

Karl Schroeder

#8. Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act.

Bruce Sterling

#9. Carpe diem. It sounds like that's what you're

Danielle Steel

#10. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

#11. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Diem Brown

#13. I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

Jerry Scott

#14. What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Thomas More

#15. I want people to know that the fight is worth it.

Diem Brown

#16. I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Sean Pertwee

#17. Life is too short to follow the speed limit

Paula Antonia Purpera

#18. Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

N.H. Kleinbaum

#19. I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

Gail Carriger

#20. When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Marcus Aurelius

#21. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

#22. Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

Jessica Sorensen

#23. Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Norman Douglas

#24. Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.

Debra Doyle

#25. We are the change we have been waiting for.

Barack Obama

#26. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.

Barbara Elsborg

#27. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

A.W. Tozer

#28. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

Jay-Z

#29. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#31. I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Brittany Murphy

#32. The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.

Meghan March

#35. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

Gina Greenlee

#36. I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii ... a lot of bad habits.

Bui Diem

#37. Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Ernest L. Boyer

#38. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.

Sharon Guskin

#39. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

#40. This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Paulo Coelho

#42. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

Henry James

#43. I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

M.F.K. Fisher

#44. What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Robert Breault