Quotes with wasted

  • There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
  • I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • George Jean Nathan 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.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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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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  • Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bette Midler A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
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    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Mickey Rooney Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
    Mickey Rooney
    American actor, vaudevillian, comedian and producer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Ted Engstrom 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.
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • John Wanamaker Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Bret Harte Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum — Saying, Come Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Ben Affleck I feel like fame is wasted on me.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Donald Trump Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Life is wasted on the living.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Barbara de Angelis Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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