Wasted Quotes

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Life is wasted on the living.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.