Top 30 Quotes About Wasted Words
#1. Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water ... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
John Irving
#2. Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.
Sarah Winter
#3. The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
#4. This time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#5. Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.
Randy Alcorn
#8. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.
All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.
Regina Brett
#9. How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.
1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
Richie Norton
#10. Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
Arlo Guthrie
#11. Oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.
Michel Faber
#12. Words have meanings.When we call something a theory in science, it means something. Reggie, when you say that you 'can't help yourself' if a girl is wasted, that means something,too.You're saying that our natural state as men is 'rapist'.
Aaron Hartzler
#13. The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
#14. What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us.
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.
V.C. Andrews
#15. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.
Paul Isaacs
#17. My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.
Jules Verne
#18. Hell is the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do...For me that conception of hell lies in two words: Too late!
Giancarlo Menotti
#19. Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies
Munia Khan
#20. Where did all the words go?" I asked.
"They just wasted away," my mom explained, " like a leg you never walk on.
Jenny Offill
#21. I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#22. Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#23. Much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
Rosemary Haughton
#24. I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.
Ned Vizzini
#25. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.
Joel T. McGrath
#26. The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.
Lionel Shriver
#27. But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#28. They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room
Clare Mackintosh
#29. The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
Marianne Williamson
#30. You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.
Cassandra Clare