Top 100 Quotes About Wastes
#1. The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#3. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.
William Shakespeare
#6. The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.
Jennifer Niven
#7. Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes.
Vikrmn
#9. Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
William Shakespeare
#10. A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times. Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.
Don DeLillo
#11. Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
Ben Harper
#12. Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
Fred Brooks
#13. Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve
#14. Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.
Beth Moore
#15. Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.
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Rachel Naomi Remen
#16. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
#17. Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn
#18. Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
R. K. Milholland
#19. Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
#20. All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
Wilfred Owen
#21. In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
Alan Watts
#22. By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
Richard Lugar
#24. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.
Janice Galloway
#25. Monday is a sloppy umbrella day, which makes everybody a little blue. Cole, dropping by my office in the morning, wastes no time in blowing off steam. "You can TAKE this DAY and SHOVE IT where the SUN DOESN'T SHINE," he growled.
"Too late. Somebody already DID THAT.
Giorge Leedy
#26. For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
George MacDonald
#28. The savior of a living thing owns the living thing. The destroyer of a living thing slays and wastes life, so he does not own a living thing. The living swan belongs to the savior, not the slayer.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#29. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Norman Vincent Peale
#30. A bad process wastes your brain cycles. A good process leverages them to maximum advantage.
Anonymous
#31. Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.
Douglas Pagels
#32. I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen.
Miley Cyrus
#33. Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny
While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm
Jeffrey Lewis
#34. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#35. That cocky smile widened. "Hello, bitch," Ansel purred.
"Hello, traitor," Aelin purred right back... "Meet Ansel of Briarcliff, assassin and Queen of the Western Wastes.
Sarah J. Maas
#36. A merchant came by a few years ago - he told me there was a mortal High King who had set himself up there. But I heard a whisper on the wind recently that said he'd been deposed by a young woman with wine-red hair who now calls herself their High Queen.
Sarah J. Maas
#37. Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim
At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
Andrew Jackson Downing
#38. Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike ... If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
Theodore Roosevelt
#39. The mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
Douglas Adams
#40. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.
Cassandra Golds
#42. Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom of existence and the essence of all created things.
Baha'u'llah
#43. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Edmund Waller
#44. Work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.
Ruth Benedict
#45. I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
Marc Reisner
#46. Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.
Jennifer Niven
#47. Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
F. R. Scott
#48. When we waste our time, our time wastes us
Robin Sharma
#49. God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey.
Sarah Jakes
#50. I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Samuel Beckett
#51. Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Cyril Connolly
#52. Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
George S. Clason
#53. The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
Mark Twain
#54. The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Willa Cather
#55. Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
Napoleon Hill
#56. Democracy ... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
#57. Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.
Joe Hyams
#58. Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.
Damon Suede
#59. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell.
And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well.
There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the skies,
the demon Baba Yaga flies.
There Tsar Koschei,
he wastes away,
poring over his pale gold.
Catherynne M Valente
#61. A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.
Larry McMurtry
#62. The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.
Richard J. Foster
#63. Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Euripides
#64. I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
Sandra Brown
#65. God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."
Dorothy L. Sayers
#66. Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.
Anthony De Mello
#67. Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#68. Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.
Sandra Steingraber
#69. It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.
John Lubbock
#70. Mainly thinking, well,
I'm still alive
and have the ability to expel wastes from my body
and poems.
and as long as that's happening
I have the ability to handle
betrayal
loneliness
hangnail
clap
and the economic reports in the
financial section.
Charles Bukowski
#71. A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
Honore De Balzac
#72. Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.
Margery Allingham
#73. How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#74. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were the subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. p. 140
C.S. Lewis
#75. He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
Mark E. Smith
#76. No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#77. The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
David R. Brower
#78. Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other.
Penny Reid
#79. The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
Annie Besant
#80. Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?
L.J.Smith
#81. In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
Samuel Johnson
#82. One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
George Sand
#83. The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
John Dryden
#84. If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.
George R R Martin
#85. Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?
Tom Robbins
#86. Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it ... myself included.
Pablo Picasso
#87. What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.
Rod Coronado
#88. If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone
#91. Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake
And behold there the constellations
Of both hemispheres at once?
-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes
Ian C. Esslemont
#92. He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.
David Levithan
#93. 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
#94. The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
William Sharp
#95. Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Wendy Kopp
#96. Anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.
Ulysses S. Grant
#97. Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
#98. Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!
Phyllis Chesler
#99. I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
Anne Wojcicki
#100. Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
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