Waste My Breath Quotes

#1. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.

J.R. Ward

#2. Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none.

Margaret Weis

#3. 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

#4. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Mary Webb

#5. The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

Kin Hubbard

#6. There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death
who knows?
may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.

Sophocles

#7. When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Confucius

#8. Sirus let his gaze drop and linger over the fine lines of Grey's body that no amount of winter clothing could hide, and he cursed under his breath at the waste of such a thing of perfection attached to such an asshole of a person.

Cameron Dane

#9. All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.

Jim McCotter

#10. Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

Robert Greene

#11. Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -
they're lucky, they can't die again.

Tony Harrison

#12. Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

Eric Zorn

#13. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Nando Parrado

#14. You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)

Janet Evanovich

#15. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.

Nancy Mitford

#16. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#17. Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Robert Hunter

#18. You're not going to drive me home?" I asked. A waste of breath, since I knew her answer.
"There's fog."
"Patchy fog."
Vee grinned. "Oh, boy. He is so on your mind. Not that I blame you. Personally, I'm hoping I dream about him tonight.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

Wiz Khalifa

#20. Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them.

Jim Butcher

#21. Don't waste your breath/
trying to escape/
if a pure love you don't have/
no one will be saved.

P.M. Highlanders

#22. When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.

Lavanya Sankaran

#23. In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money ... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Laura Miller

#24. Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

LeCrae

#25. I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Elvis Costello

#26. To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

Plautus

#27. I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. - W. B. YEATS

Al Alvarez

#28. I do." He was clearly amused by my disdain. "We have only been speaking for two minutes, Paige. Try not to waste all your sarcasm in one breath."
I wanted to kill him. As it happened, I couldn't.

Samantha Shannon

#29. He had people to love, who, best of all, loved him, too. He didn't feel it made sense to waste the energy on relationships that would only pull him under some emotional waterfall in which he'd never catch his breath.

Scott Turow

#30. Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard ... -George Foster

Shawn Durnin

#31. Breath,Thoughts, Feelings and Words are precious..
Be ruthlessly aware so you never waste these..
Ruthless with yourself..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#32. 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