Waste Quotes

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.