Wasted Time Wise Quotes

#1. Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#2. Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B.B. King

#3. Politics is like a stage. Each politician plays his part according to the lines that are given to him. But backstage, the hero and the villain enjoy their drink together. Everybody

Ashwin Sanghi

#4. My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

Andrew Taylor Still

#5. Social Darwinism had continued to flourish in German. Together with Mendelian genetics, it was widely thought to provide a scientific basis for the eugenic 'Racial Hygiene' movement.

Jonathan Glover

#6. Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

Henrietta C. Mears

#7. I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Phil Spector

#8. Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies

Munia Khan

#9. To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?

Charles Fuller

#10. To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

M. Thomas Gammarino

#11. People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Helen Keller

#12. The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Chapter 12 title)

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

Jodi Picoult

#14. I know because I read ... Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Libba Bray

#15. To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.

All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.

Regina Brett

#17. The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself.

Pope Francis

#18. Where ever men go, in heaven, or earth, or hell they find themselves, and that
is all they find.

Burton Blatt