Top 100 Wasted But Quotes
#1. and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.
Tim Lane
#2. I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
John Wanamaker
#3. Pain we surrender to God is not wasted but like labor pains it bears fruit and brings new life.
Barbara Hosbach
#4. Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant to be seen and meant to be told for such a time as this!
Sipporah Joseph
#5. We receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.
Mark Driscoll
#6. Your struggles and tears will NEVER be wasted but will be transformed into a healing balm after your victory, release and manifestation comes. You've won already. Hold on just a little while longer. Everything will be alright. We serve a God whose Name is FAITHFUL.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#7. Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.
David Byrne
#8. She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. This was not just money wasted but the construction of a false confidence based on an erroneous focus.
Anonymous
#10. Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.
William Boyd
#12. Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
Kim Clijsters
#14. 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
#15. I finally got t this place were it feel right were i knew i belong were i didn't give crap maybe is not the right place but i feel save
Anita Rodriguez
#16. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
William Ellery Channing
#18. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
Thornton T. Munger
#19. The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
Vinoba Bhave
#20. Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.
George Papandreou
#21. You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
Carl Hiaasen
#22. I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.
Sonakshi Sinha
#23. My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.
Frances Stark
#24. They tried shooting at the squirrels, and they wasted many arrows before they managed to bring one down on the path. But when they roasted it, it proved horrible to taste, and they shot no more squirrels.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. I love you as exiled souls love each other when they meet in the middle of the desert. There will never be anything physical between us, but no passion is in vain, no love is ever wasted.
Paulo Coelho
#26. age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.
Charles Bukowski
#27. Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.
Robert Breault
#28. Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned.
L.R. Olson
#29. Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.
Eric Hoffer
#30. I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what was so fabulous about him - he was very down to earth.
Kiki Dee
#31. Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life,
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.
Jeff Horowitz
#34. London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."
Keith Murray
#35. How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
George MacDonald
#36. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
Nell Freudenberger
#37. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.
Gabrielle Zevin
#38. Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.
Patricia St. John
#39. He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako's life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.
Yasunari Kawabata
#40. I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Jose Mujica
#41. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...
Mordecai Richler
#42. But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.
Walker Percy
#43. But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#44. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
Anthony Marra
#45. Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
Anzia Yezierska
#46. I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
James Salter
#47. It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.
Malin Akerman
#48. They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
Philip Freneau
#50. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.
Joel T. McGrath
#51. He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
Hannah More
#52. Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
Dinesh D'Souza
#53. I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
Bob Dylan
#54. I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
Madonna Ciccone
#55. Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
Charlotte Gray
#56. He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
Thomas Hardy
#57. You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
G.K. Chesterton
#58. Much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
Rosemary Haughton
#59. I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore
Michelle Hodkin
#60. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?
Andrew Peterson
#61. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot
#62. A wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.
Dean Koontz
#63. Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.
Cleveland W. Gibson
#64. I know sometimes it's scary to think that you might do the wrong thing. It's terrifying to imagine wasting your "one shot". But let me assure you, nothing you do will be wasted. Every decision you make, every path you take, has the ability to contribute something you need to succeed at your dream.
Jon Acuff
#65. Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body," Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. "But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted.
Thomas Harris
#66. I'm sorry for everything I've done to you Layla. But you should know there will never be anyone else for me. As
long as you're walking this earth, the shattered pieces of my wasted heart will love you forever. You're my girl Layla.
Marie Coulson
#67. You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what
happens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.
It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how you
react. That's the trick.
Katie Kacvinsky
#68. 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
#69. Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.
Gloria Steinem
#71. And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.
Kerri Walsh
#72. God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
John Piper
#73. A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.
Vann Chow
#74. It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectually, you need to work harder right now than you ever have before. Otherwise you, you risk wasting your potential."
"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it.
John Green
#75. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#76. But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
Kathleen Sebelius
#77. You're like a brother to me. I would never do anything to hurt you. And I know I haven't been what a brother would consider good material for his wee sister, but I love Ellie, Braden. I have for a long time now, and I can't not be with her. I've wasted too much time as it is.
Samantha Young
#78. I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul
Diane Chamberlain
#79. She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one is precious, to be wasted as she wishes.
Dexter Palmer
#80. With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no longer belonged to him but was strange and disconnected, like something once memorized that could be recalled only with difficulty in the form of barren fragments. He
Hermann Hesse
#81. 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
#82. I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
Ellen DeGeneres
#83. It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day. You
Brian Tracy
#84. I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.
Madeline Hunter
#85. We are all born with a muscle for courage, but our education has wasted it away.
Will Jelbert
#86. My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.
Jules Verne
#87. We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.
Joshua Ferris
#88. That depends. You've got to define 'party girl.' If you mean I'm a walking good time, then hells yeah. But I'm not wasted and stumbling out of clubs and getting DUIs. I'm not that kind of party girl. I may be blonde and fun as balls, but I'm not a moron.
Ke$ha
#89. Remember this, if you can
there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end
only in the end it becomes more obvious.
Herman Wouk
#90. The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.
Athena Kamalei
#91. I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me
Juliana Hatfield
#92. I wasted my time, he said, 'though the hours seemed pleasant. But all such things are short-lived; and the joy in the making is their old true end, I guess.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.
Taitetsu Unno
#94. Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.
Janny Wurts
#95. I always felt I wouldn't be around long. I mean, we live, we die. circle of life. But I feel life now is wasted in front of the Television and computer that we all miss the view of it. I know I was put her for a purpose and I just need to find out what it is.
Sarah Swartz
#96. It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
Paul Wolfowitz
#97. He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.
Laini Taylor
#98. Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
Jerry Della Femina
#99. I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time
but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.
Gretchen Rubin
#100. The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
Benjamin Franklin
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