Squandered Quotes

#1. Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.

Eric Haney

#2. Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#3. A good thing that is squandered upon bad folk is never remembered by them for good.

Sebastian Evans

#4. If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

Dick Cavett

#5. Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

Mike Huckabee

#6. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Samuel Johnson

#7. I have squandered away my father's political legacy ... My personal life is in a mess ... Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

Tuhin A. Sinha

#8. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ... la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la ...

Paul Simon

#9. I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand." "I

Thomas Hardy

#10. I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours ... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Christopher Isherwood

#11. We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

Nikola Tesla

#12. Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Eric L. Haney

#13. Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

#14. If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

John Kitzhaber

#15. The play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.

Albert Camus

#16. Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

Gerald Celente

#18. Chigurh shot him through the forehead and then stood watching. Watching the capillaries break up in his eyes. The light receding. Watching his own image degrade in that squandered world.

Cormac McCarthy

#19. The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences.

Steven Redhead

#20. What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Thomas Sowell

#21. To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Everything in his life had led to this moment
every decision both good and bad, every heart-ache, every struggle, every victory and every defeat. And then he hesitated and that moment was over, squandered, and gone forever.

Testy McTesterson

#23. This "manna from heaven" was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them by force. Which meant a great loss of time and money for the enterprises. "Well,

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#24. The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.

John Robbins

#25. I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

George Best

#26. Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Rose Kennedy

#27. Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue

Olsfred James

#28. We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents ... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.

Cory Booker

#29. Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lying sad right around the corner,
Only an instant removed,
Unnoticed and squandered.

Dejan Stojanovic

#30. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Theophile Gautier

#31. With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me. That

J.D. Vance

#32. Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

Bill Willingham

#33. Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Mary Roach

#34. Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Benjamin Clementine

#36. My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

Tom Hollander

#37. From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

Roman Payne

#38. The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

Robert Sternberg

#39. One day, if you make the most of it, can be more satisfactory than a lifetime squandered.

Colleen Houck

#40. Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.

Marcel Proust

#41. Never to be squandered ... the miracle of another human being.

Craig Lucas

#42. I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

Willa Cather

#43. The biggest problem the banks had was that they had lent roughly 30 billion euros to the Greek government - where it was stolen or squandered. In Greece the banks didn't sink the country. The country sank the banks.

Michael Lewis

#44. The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

Thomas S. Monson

#45. What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#46. Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Sissela Bok

#47. What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come rushing to the rescue six months later. I wasn't a person to be saved only when it was a convenient time to swoop in.

Tayari Jones

#48. The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Hasan Of Basra

#49. In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion ... What a waste ... That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.

Bill Press

#50. Magick isn't every answer. A body must know how to fend for himself without it as well. A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.

Nora Roberts

#51. When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, ... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift ... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#52. Don't stay married to your job too long," she says. "One of these days you're going to wake up and you might be lonely, and you've squandered the best years of your life away for the one thing that can never love you back.

Winter Renshaw

#53. My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

Joan Rivers

#54. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable

George Carlin

#55. What had happened wasn't supposed to have happened and yet, they still rendered the predictable media spin of potential squandered, the gift of education sacrificed to the allure of thug life, etc. Not only simplistic, but also offensively so.

Jeff Hobbs

#56. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Anthony Bourdain

#57. Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Bill Russell

#58. Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

Derek Sivers

#59. Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

Mason Cooley

#60. Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Pope John Paul II

#61. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Joe Biden

#62. Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#63. Her life had been squandered, and whether she said it in pentameter or not didn't seem to matter much.

James S.A. Corey

#64. In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.

Maggie Stiefvater

#65. Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

Jerry Pournelle

#66. The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

#67. What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions - the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

Wally Lamb

#68. The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Garth Stein

#70. Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.

LaVyrle Spencer

#71. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.

Miroslav Penkov

#72. There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Jane Kenyon

#73. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand.

Thomas Hardy

#74. He considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#75. All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.

Sigrid Undset

#76. California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.

Victor Davis Hanson

#77. Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.

Marcel Proust

#78. We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#79. I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

Joe Queenan

#80. In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain
the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes.
You have used up the years and they have used up you,
and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Jorge Luis Borges

#81. He had squandered the two most precious treasures ever known: the gift of life and the gift of love.

Jackson Radcliffe

#82. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough