Top 100 Waste My Time Quotes
#1. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.
Jude Watson
#2. 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
#3. I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
Rodney Atkins
#4. You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?
Ron Brackin
#5. The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
Lorene Scafaria
#6. I have my work cut out for me where you're concerned, don't I? (Stryker)
Not really. Hate you today. Will hate you tomorrow. What say we don't waste any time? Give me the sword and let me have your throat now. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
Patti Smith
#8. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Jill Robinson
#9. In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.
Wendell Berry
#10. I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
Phil Donahue
#11. I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
Gisele Bundchen
#12. Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
Brene Brown
#13. I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski
#14. I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!
Latif Mercado
#15. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
Albert Einstein
#16. His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.
Meljean Brook
#17. I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment
Malcolm X
#18. Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
Hill Harper
#19. If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Ewen Bremner
#20. It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
Conn Iggulden
#21. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.
Violet Trefusis
#22. I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.
Richard Dooling
#23. I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
Charles Kennedy
#24. Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.
Blake Shelton
#26. I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz
#28. Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. You think my dreams are a waste of time?"
"I think your dreams would be a waste of my time," he said. "I wouldn't be happy.
Rainbow Rowell
#30. My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Kim Wilde
#31. Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
Lady Gaga
#32. I wish my fans will always be nice to one another. Don't waste time & enjoy life
Jessica Jung
#33. the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.
Paulo Coelho
#34. If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
Mason Cooley
#35. The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
Christine Baranski
#36. Today, I am glad that I'm me - I'm glad that I was born who I am, that I've learned what I've learned, and that I've become who I am. I am happy and grateful for my life, and I shall not waste time comparing it with the lives of others, for I am I, and I am very glad of that fact!
Tom Walsh
#37. I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.
Lily Collins
#38. As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.
Garrison Keillor
#40. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My
Nikola Tesla
#41. You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
Ayn Rand
#42. I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
Cindy Crawford
#43. From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.
Clayton M Christensen
#44. because it's not my dad's fault he wasn't the dad I wanted growing up. Just like it's not his fault he got cancer. Blaming other people for the situation you find yourself in is just a waste of time. And besides, what's he going to learn if I tell him a few home truths?
Matt Dunn
#45. I live life by my own terms. Otherwise, what's the point? I march to someone else's orders, than I'm living someone else's life. I'm not gonna waste my time worrying about what other people think. I do my thing, they do theirs, and everyone's happy.
Mia Storm
#46. DONOVAN: Now I understand my strengths. Because of Journey, I no longer waste time pretending to be anyone besides the guy in the mirror.
Bijou Hunter
#47. School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Amber Heard
#48. I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.
Kristin Hannah
#49. If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines
to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.
Elizabeth Smart
#50. Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#51. My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
Abraham Verghese
#52. I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
Katie Hoff
#53. I have fourteen black wives an' one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place in my bed tonight, Mama Sam Moon.
Was sex all these people ever thought about? I guess life was short back then, and nobody had much time to waste on anything else.
J.R. Rain
#54. I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#55. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
B.B. King
#56. I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.
John Irving
#57. I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
Alan Ball
#58. Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.
Carl Froch
#59. Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
Edward Bond
#60. I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.
Misty Copeland
#61. I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.
G.B. Edwards
#62. I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.
Tana French
#63. I don't care about your family," he said sharply. "Whatever you choose must be for you and you alone. You waste my time. This is no riddle to debate and stew. Just choose," He bellowed, causing me to jump.
[...]
"Refuge," I whispered.
The growling stopped.
M.J. Haag
#64. I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.
Alexa Von Tobel
#65. Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.
George Carlin
#66. I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#67. I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.
Michael Dumontier
#68. A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
Lauren Hutton
#70. There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.
Carlos Wallace
#71. I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.
Nicole Richie
#72. I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.
Susan Lodge
#73. The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.
Jason Day
#74. It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.
Kim Clijsters
#75. I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
Michael Skolnik
#76. I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.
Dave Goldberg
#77. But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?
Peter S. Beagle
#78. People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
Arthur C. Clarke
#79. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
#80. There's always tomorrow."
I followed him. "Tomorrow's not going to change anything."
"We'll see."
"There's nothing to see. You're wasting your time."
"When it concerns you, it's never a waste of my time," he replied.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't ... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.
Stephen King
#82. It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.
Wayne Dyer
#83. When you get to my age,' he says, his face softening, 'you don't waste time with regrets. In the end, you just remember the moments of joy. When all is said and done, those are the things we keep.
Sally Hepworth
#84. So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.
George R R Martin
#85. I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
Crystal Reed
#86. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
#87. You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew Barrymore
#88. I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
Syd Barrett
#89. I don't want to waste my time, being another casualty of society
Sum 41
#90. At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.
Phil Anselmo
#91. That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
Wally Lamb
#92. Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head
Blink-182
#93. If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
Daniel Woodrell
#95. Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!
Phyllis Chesler
#96. I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
Zoe Saldana
#97. You ... you need to move on," I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. "You need to find someone else. You know I don't - that I can't. Well, you know. You're wasting your time with me."
He remained firm. "It's my time to waste.
Richelle Mead
#98. This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,' said Mrs. Jessie sadly.
Louisa May Alcott
#99. There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.
Simon Cowell
#100. He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."
Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.
Kasie West
