Waste Quotes

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.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

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.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.