Waste Quotes
- Page 8I 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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
George Martin
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
David R. Brower
Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.
Izabella Scorupco
How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
Raul Grijalva
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
Craig Bruce
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
Tony Parsons
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Jill Robinson
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston