Quotes About Borrowed Time

#1. It was borrowed time anyway - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

Howard Zinn

#2. 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

#3. I've lived on borrowed time. More than any man deserves. I've seen wonders beyond my wildest imaginings. Through these centuries, against the impossibility that we'd find each other, we did. And I am most grateful for it.

Sleepy Hollow Press

#4. Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#5. Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

Bobby V

#6. 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

#7. I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.

Jason Gray

#8. Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Kate Jacobs

#9. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. At

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

Jason Gray

#11. We are surviving, in this pleasant liberal enclave where people read and speak freely, on borrowed time. But for those not inside - the dispossessed of the world, the poor, the refugees and those forced into exile - existence is wasteland.

Hanif Kureishi

#12. When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Judith Hooper

#13. Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money.

Robert Kurson

#14. 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 ...

Andre Aciman

#15. Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.
I don't fear death.
I've already died too many times before.
I'm a cat with nine lives and I'm already on number twelve. I'm living on borrowed time. When death wants to take me, it'll take me.

J.M. Darhower

#16. He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray

Jason Gray

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that "whosoever will" may come and receive His Son. But this period of grace will not go on indefinitely. We are even now living on borrowed time.

Billy Graham

#21. You'll survive, mu Tara. We'll make sure of it. (Nykyrian)
You can't guarantee that. You said it yourself. Even you're living on borrowed time, waiting for one of them to kill you. (Kiara)
And you said I was scaring her? Damn, bud. You're socially awkward to the extreme. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. America's been living on borrowed time all these years ... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.

Wally Lamb

#23. I don't want to die," she repeated, her voice trembling. "I want to live. I want to live life with all its emotions, all its experiences. I don't want to miss anything. But i feel like i will. I feel like i'm living on borrowed time.

M. Leighton

#24. It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm - your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it's borrowed time, and that it will be over all too soon.

Morgan Matson

#25. None of us are ever far from death. Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, our vulnerability is profound and intrinsic, our time on this Earth borrowed, fleeting.

Greg F. Gifune

#26. Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.

Mitt Romney

#27. The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

Emily Giffin

#28. Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

Martina Boone

#29. 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

#30. But a person's smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time.
Much longer than a house.

Catherynne M Valente

#31. I think that life has brought a lot to fashion, and fashion brings plenty to life. I took my children on photo shoots, at the same time, I borrowed my father's sweater for a photo shoot and, then, I am inspired by a Russian princess because of my Russian roots. Everything is all mixed in together.

Carine Roitfeld

#32. I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

Tears For Fears

#33. But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Franz Grillparzer

#36. 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

#37. The link between nudity and sexuality is a modern invention. If there are no mysteries, there are no secrets, no shame when the time comes for him to Change. Our exterior bodies are borrowed treasures.

E.A. Copen

#38. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

Steven Pinker

#39. When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Joe Torre

#40. Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

Sunday Adelaja