Quotes with waste

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  • Barbra Streisand Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Auguste Rodin Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Bob Riley Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Bhagavad Gita On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Victor Hugo Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Calvin Klein Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Moses Hadas Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • M. Henry That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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  • Marguerite Duras The best way to fill time is to waste it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Prince Philip The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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