Top 100 Wasted Quotes
#1. When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.
Nathan Rabin
#2. It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?
Emily Bronte
#3. I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.
Stephen Kelman
#4. Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.
Osho
#6. It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
May Sarton
#7. Hell is when we look back during the fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at the moment I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I Lived my life and did what I had to do
Paulo Coelho
#8. You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.
Cassandra Clare
#9. Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
Arthur L. Herman
#10. I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
Chris Martin
#11. A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
Jesse Ventura
#12. One funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that's what I tell myself so I don't feel quite as crappy when I've just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.
Stephan Pastis
#13. I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.
David Sedaris
#14. I'm so pissed off about it, because - I mean, I wasted so much of my life with him and then he cheats on me and I'm not even particularly, like, depressed about it?
John Green
#15. Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.
Hope Jahren
#16. She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#17. The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
William Greider
#18. Every second you spend with the wrong person, is a second wasted in the search for true love.
Leon Brown
#19. I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.
Grace Helbig
#20. I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
Joel Edgerton
#21. This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted
surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.
David Levithan
#22. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Neil Gaiman
#23. All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
John Vianney
#24. If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.
John Lennon
#25. I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.
Vivek Wadhwa
#27. Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.
Elena Ferrante
#28. Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.
Michelle Jellen
#29. If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.
Chieko N. Okazaki
#30. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
Arnold Bennett
#31. Life is like a fimrole. only correct values get u a picture otherwise u wasted a snap ...
Raj
#32. When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
Elisabeth Elliot
#33. I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.
George Meyer
#34. Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#35. Looking behind causes nothing but broken spells and wasted pain
Cassandra Clare
#36. No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.
Esther Hicks
#37. One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare.
Wally Lamb
#38. No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.
Martha Beck
#39. Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.
Mordecai Richler
#40. If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!
Ljupka Cvetanova
#41. She felt the press of time as keenly as Kai had. She'd already wasted too much of it. Kissing Thorne in the atrium. Hiding in that cabinet. Dodging in and out of corridors like a lost rabbit.
Marissa Meyer
#42. Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
Herbert Gold
#43. No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. I told you what a good little whore you could be. Your talent has been wasted.
Jesse Joren
#45. Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God's plan and purposes for your life.
Elizabeth George
#46. We must start ... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.
Jay Inslee
#47. Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Mason Cooley
#48. I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.
Mary Lambert
#49. Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson.
Martha Beck
#50. Every encounter ids there to know who we are-nothing is wasted.
Tracy McMillan
#51. 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
#52. I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
#53. Any conduct on the part of an individual that does not advance him toward the goal of eternal life is not only wasted energy but actually becomes the basis of sin.
Harold B. Lee
#54. Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably ... !
Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
#55. That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.
Joe Hill
#57. I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the [George W.] Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
Paul Auster
#58. Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.
Darian Wilk
#59. I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.
Taylor Swift
#61. What about me?" I choke. "Do you owe me something? I was just as wasted as she was. Why do I get driven home and kept safe but not her? Why not just leave me to Dooney and Deacon and the boys in the basement?
Aaron Hartzler
#62. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
Shaun Hick
#63. Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
Barbara Bush
#64. As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#66. Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
Where wasted nations raise a single name;
And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
From age to age in everlasting debt;
Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
Samuel Johnson
#67. I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
Matt Groening
#68. It seems to happen sudden - a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself - no energy wasted ... he slips and slides - he travels with the punch ... Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
Clifford Odets
#69. The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.
Dawson Trotman
#70. If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.
Blake Shelton
#71. Energy spent on worrying about a future you can't control is energy wasted. It doesn't do anybody one bit of good. I
Julia Claiborne Johnson
#72. Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;
Abigail Thomas
#73. It's like your beauty is wasted on my eyeballs.
Alanea Alder
#74. I guess it's worth a shot. More than likely a wasted bullet, but I'll fire anyway.
Brandy Nacole
#75. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.
Nancy E. Turner
#76. We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?
Anne Rice
#77. Oatmeal Face, Jawless, and the other revenants dragged me out of the van by the zip tie between my hands. The sharp plastic bit painfully into my wrists.
"All right, all right, I'm coming," I said. "Keep your faces on."
There was no reaction from any of them. Humor was wasted on the dead.
Nicholas Kaufmann
#78. Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.
Ozzy Osbourne
#79. You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.
Holly Black
#80. I was waiting for
something extraordinary to
happen
but as the years wasted on
nothing ever did unless I
caused it.
Charles Bukowski
#81. In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.
Regina Brett
#82. Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
#83. You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.
Toks Olagundoye
#84. Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.
Conan O'Brien
#85. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
#86. It was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad.
i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate
it would've been wasted if you hadn't
Orson Scott Card
#87. Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!
Billy Connolly
#88. Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
Kevin Mitnick
#89. Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED
Jay-Z
#90. People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable.
Anna McPartlin
#92. Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
Robert Breault
#93. Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom
#94. Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over ...
Paul J. Meyer
#95. A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.
Soren Kierkegaard
#96. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.
Arthur Ransome
#97. Love is all wasted, till it is not tested.
Love is all faded, if it is only tested.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#98. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
Justin Rosenstein
#99. Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Andrew Forrest
