Waste Quotes

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

I don't think we have any time to waste.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.