Quotes with waste

  • Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
  • 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.
  • Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
  • I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
  • The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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  • Mark Twain A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Gray Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
    and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • George Eliot It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
    L'Chiam
     
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  • Thomas Love Peacock The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Kurt Cobain All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
    Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Billy Parish Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Philip Johnson Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
    Philip Johnson
     
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  • Donald Culross Peattie Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
    Donald Culross Peattie
     
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  • Jeremy Collier 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.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Milton Berle Committee-a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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  • Charles Churchill Could it be worth thy wondrous waste of pains I to publish to the world thy lack of brains?
    The Rosciad (1761)
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • David Lloyd George Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson
     
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