Waste Quotes

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

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.

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?

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.