Waste famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?
-- Aaron Swartz -
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
-- Abdallah II -
It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
-- Adam Clarke -
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
-- Adam Levine -
People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
-- Alan Ball -
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
-- Alan Kulwicki -
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
-- Aleister Crowley -
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.
-- Alek Wek -
Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
-- Alton Brown -
I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.
-- Amanda Hocking -
I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
-- Amy Brenneman -
my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.
-- Ana Castillo -
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
-- Andre Maurois -
I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
-- Andy Andrews -
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time
-- Anne Hathaway -
To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
-- Anne Rice -
You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.
-- Anthony Albanese -
To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
-- Antonis Samaras -
Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
-- Ariana Grande -
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.
-- Arnold Ehret -
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
-- Arthur Miller -
Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.
-- Asher Brown Durand -
You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.
-- Azealia Banks -
The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy.
-- Barack Obama -
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
-- Barbara Bush -
when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
-- Barry Lyga -
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
-- Beatrice Webb -
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
-- Ben Harper -
Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.
-- Ben Huh -
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
-- Beth Moore -
I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
-- Betty White -
If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.
-- Bob Goodlatte -
Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste
-- Bonnie Raitt -
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
-- Brad Blanton -
Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
-- Brené Brown -
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
-- C.J. Langenhoven -
Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
-- Caitlin Moran -
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
-- Camille Pissarro -
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.
-- Carly Fiorina -
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
-- Carol S. Dweck -
I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it...
-- Carole King -
The child, unhampered, does not waste time.
-- Caroline Pratt -
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?
-- Chad Anderson -
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
-- Chaim Potok -
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
-- Charles Churchill -
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
-- Charles Duhigg -
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
-- Charles Frazier -
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
-- Charles Robert Maturin -
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
-- Charles Tupper -
Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.
-- Charlie Papazian -
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
-- Chief Seattle -
People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.
-- Chris Matthews -
You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free
-- Chris Rea -
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.
-- Christopher Paolini -
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
-- Chuck Grassley -
The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
-- Cindy Crawford -
I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.
-- Claire Cameron -
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
-- Cleo Moore -
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
-- Cliff Martinez -
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
-- Clive Barker -
It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.
-- Coco Ho -
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
-- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau -
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
-- Confucius -
A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.
-- Coolio -
She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
-- Corey Ford -
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
-- Craig Reucassel -
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.
-- Dalai Lama -
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
-- Dan Benishek -
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
-- Dan Millman -
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
-- David Baldacci
