Wasted Quotes

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

Life is wasted on the living.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

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

I have wasted my hours.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.