486 Waste Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. John James Audubon

God Heart Grateful Mountains Those Destiny City Risen Abroad How Praise Been Pine Often Waste Among

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. Lester B. Pearson

Destruction Win Win Or Lose Lose Nothing Side Considerable Scale Possible Economic Know Modern Any Gain Modern Warfare Warfare Fought Now Waste

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first. Lydia Lunch

Music Time Problem First Band Waste Time Rules Must Solving Rather Point Simply Know Instrument Make Learn Rock How Least According Than Ignored Waste Play

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life. Rick Bass

Life Would Would-Be Pursue Wants Waste Thing

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives. Robin S. Sharma

Buy Book Books Way One Book Never Takes Idea Leads Since Read Lot Person Really Radically Even Waste Lives Thinks

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. Scott Spencer

War History World Worse Futility Would Purpose Shameful Could Clear Armed Make Without Said Ultimately The History Of Conflicts Place Far Special Special Place Ludicrous Whose Waste Lives World War World War I Resolution

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks

Life Time Valuable Value Thought Life Is A Lasts Way Criterion Something Only Poets Because Am Human Just Sensation Just Because Romantic Literary Whether Which Mean Then Fleeting Human Life Who Whole Waste Waste Of Time

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. Syd Barrett

Time Path Backward My Time Mostly Just Waste Treading

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know? Tina Knowles

Sleep is a waste of time. Vint Cerf

Time Waste Waste Of Time Sleep

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. William Butler Yeats

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. William Whipple

Time Good Sometimes Will Long Lawyer Sorry Matters Congress Say Small Throw Importance Gentlemen Deal Am Repeated Off Chicanery Very Precious Precious Time Who Good Deal Even Wholly Waste Speeches

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth

Our Spending Lay Powers Getting Waste

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? Yehuda Berg

Food Change Natural Problem Natural Disasters Increasing Our Resources Evidence Rapidly Food Chain Beat Disasters Toxic Climate Climate Change Continue Perpetuating Same Irreparable Natural Resources Much Chain Keep Waste Why Marching Alarming Harm

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants. Xavier Dolan

Work Time Great Become Lose Think Too Monsters I Think Tyrants Focused Spirals Having No Time Hysterical Irrational Egos Artists Where Themselves Requests Waste Disproportionate Actually

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love. Óscar Arias

Love Song Progress Hatred Singing Seems Existence Endless Often Human Where Race Should Human Race Waste Away

Insecurity is such a waste of time. Catherine O'Hara

Time Insecurity Waste Waste Of Time

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, 'Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?' It's '12 Monkeys,' and '12 Monkeys' is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it. Aaron Stanford

Work Time Good Awesome Immediately Television Television Show Part Doing Go Hear Any Going Wanted Fan Place Turned Show Film Waste Waste Of Time Why Monkeys

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer. Abbey Clancy

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can't spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it! Abby Lee Miller

Time Me People Words Picture Just Do It Out Run Minutes About My Time Haw Spit Takes Hours Ready Always Target Five Getting Just Want Standing Waste Two

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure. Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse. Ajit Pai

Circles Fraud Some Lifeline Abuse Known Unfortunately Waste Program

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