Ally Carter Quotes

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.

You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Economy is the thief of time.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.