J. D. Salinger Quotes

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

I ain't got time to bleed.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

I wish there were 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week.

There just aren't enough hours in the day; I've got a lot of things that I want to do, and those that I can do, I'm going to make sure that I do do!

There are never enough minutes in the day for what I want to do.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Those who never have time do least

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.