Quotes About Wasting Your Breath

#1. Tears shall drown the wind

William Shakespeare

#2. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

Jay Michaelson

#3. It is not a question of crime and punishment
it is problem and solution.

Rohinton Mistry

#4. If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.

Henry Cloud

#5. I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

Joe Royle

#6. The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

Zig Ziglar

#7. wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that's all you could do. You make a fucking stupid mistake, and you could only call yourself an idiot and then snap back before you screwed up again.

Kelley Armstrong

#8. Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Stephen King

#9. She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

Penn Williamson

#10. Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it.

Tite Kubo

#11. Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. [T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend - how many of us wonder about how we spend our day, let alone each breath?

Ethar El-Katatney

#13. In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.

Cyrus Vance

#14. Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don't waste this breath, if your heart isn't crazy, since "the rest of your life" won't last forever.

Omar Khayyam

#15. Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

Lynne Truss

#17. O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

Robert Burns

#18. As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.

Sharon Sala

#19. We'll just have to get smarter.

Ed Catmull

#20. You're not supposed to animate drawings. You're supposed to animate feelings.

Ollie Johnston

#21. Well, what are we waiting for? Someone call the backhoe and let's go dig up a dead guy.

John L. French

#22. Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

Walker Evans