Top 100 A Waste Of Time Quotes
#1. I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
Betty White
#2. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
Steven Pinker
#3. Life is over in a blink of an eye - so why waste your time being anything but happy that you've been given another day to live?" "Hey,
Rachel Van Dyken
#4. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Mitch Albom
#5. Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one's keyboard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. I worried too much about what others thought - I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.
Jan Karon
#7. Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.
Henri Nouwen
#8. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"
"A little of both," said Azrael.
Mirriam Neal
#9. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.
Ben Tolosa
#10. You can't live your life for someone else, and you can't let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other - it's a waste of energy.
Dannika Dark
#11. (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.)))
Charles Stross
#12. Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time - And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel.
Ray Bradbury
#13. Spam is a waste of the receivers' time, and, a waste of the sender's optimism.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#14. Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.
Carlos Salinas
#15. The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.
James Gilligan
#16. I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
Amy Brenneman
#17. If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don't waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.
Greg Plitt
#18. 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.
Jack Canfield
#19. If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.
Jaggi Vasudev
#20. The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Ed Bliss
#21. The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
C.S. Lewis
#22. You think my dreams are a waste of time?"
"I think your dreams would be a waste of my time," he said. "I wouldn't be happy.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Kim Wilde
#24. Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.
Jane Seymour
#25. The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
Wilkie Collins
#26. I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.
Keith Murray
#27. And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.
Adrastus Rood
#28. Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.
Frederick Lenz
#29. And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.
Cassandra Clare
#30. One cannot enjoy a proper pity party and feel guilty about it at the same time. That was just a waste of a good pity party.
Melanie Shawn
#31. Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf
#32. She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance.
Liane Moriarty
#33. The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.
Andy Stanley
#34. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
#35. In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
Michael Chabon
#36. 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
#37. Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?
Anna Jean Ouellette
#38. If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.
Giovanni Ribisi
#39. In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
Larry Brooks
#40. Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls ... collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer ... commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
Scott Adams
#41. However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
never even be offered life in the first place?
Richard Dawkins
#44. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
#45. RBG often repeated her mother's advice that getting angry was a waste of your own time. Even more often, she shared her mother-in-law's counsel for marriage: that sometimes it helped to be a little deaf.
Irin Carmon
#46. Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
Ken Livingstone
#47. In life I Have learned a lot of things, One of the main things I learned is that If you waste your time with problem women you will end up with nothing but women problems
Kenny D. Eichenberg
#48. In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
Malala Yousafzai
#49. Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
Federico Fellini
#50. Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
Barry Lyga
#51. I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.
G.B. Edwards
#52. I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.
Tana French
#53. A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#54. After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.
Michael Foley
#55. I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.
Jane Goodall
#56. Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#57. Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
Donald Glover
#58. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
#59. I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.
Fred Durst
#60. If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't ... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.
Stephen King
#61. Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#62. No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.
Gary Keller
#63. I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
Doris Day
#64. Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.
Jonathan Raban
#65. Marriage is success as long as you are married to a person you truly love; otherwise, it is merely convenience and a waste of two people's time.
Ben Tolosa
#66. If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
Bill Gates
#67. I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
Daniel Woodrell
#68. Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating
Pierce Brosnan
#69. Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.
Ryan Shawcross
#70. Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind
Tim McGraw
#71. He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."
Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.
Kasie West
#73. At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
David R. Brower
#74. That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.
Marianne Williamson
#75. They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.
Miki Dora
#76. Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
Dan Gemeinhart
#77. Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
Andy Rooney
#78. By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren't necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when there were giant scorpions invading the castle?
Margaret Atwood
#79. He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#80. My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
Jack Kerouac
#81. Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries
#82. She does not acknowledge hatred. A waste of time. Life
Kelly Gardiner
#83. For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#84. It wasn't a waste of time if you learned that it was a waste of time.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#85. Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
Kathy Mattea
#86. The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Peter Capaldi
#87. Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Manuel Puig
#88. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
Shaun Hick
#89. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]
Miles Franklin
#90. I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
Kate Grenville
#91. I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
Edna Ferber
#92. In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
John Ortberg
#93. If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland
#94. I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.
Johnny Carson
#95. I run because I enjoy it - not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run - not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.
Amby Burfoot
#96. One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.
Ron Fournier
#97. By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
John Woolman
#98. Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.
Art is for expressing your visionary being.
Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.
Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.
Waste not one jot of what you are given!
Use everything you've got to maximise living.
Jay Woodman
#99. I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.
Ani DiFranco
#100. You are always prompt, Minister Eschbach. You do not make time a game of position." "Oh, but I do. My time is important. So is yours. When I waste neither, you find yourself indebted to me.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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