Wastes Away Quotes

#1. The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

Mark Twain

#2. There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell.
And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well.
There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the skies,
the demon Baba Yaga flies.
There Tsar Koschei,
he wastes away,
poring over his pale gold.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Euripides

#4. That's Manhattan today - all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

Andrew Vachss

#5. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

Ernst Junger

#6. That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Hippocrates

#7. 28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Anonymous

#8. If one person "wastes" away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

Francis Chan

#9. As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Ben Harper

#11. Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Joe Biden

#12. Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

Jack Canfield

#13. Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.

Adrien Broner

#15. There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

Joe Bradley

#16. There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).

Eric Wedge

#17. Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

Chico Resch

#18. If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Orison Swett Marden

#19. When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

D.W. Griffith

#20. It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

John Lubbock

#21. Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.

Damon Suede

#22. Man is what his dreams are.

Benjamin E. Mays

#23. I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

Christopher Doyle