Wasting Quotes

1. "Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy."
Author: Alice Walsh

2. "Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind."
Author: Amit Kalantri

3. "If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come."
Author: Amit Kalantri

4. "He wants you and Rayna both to stay away until he announces the ceremony. I told him you had plenty to keep you occupied until then.""What do you mean?""Are you brainless as a reef, minnow? You can have Emma now. Why you're wasting your time here in Eggland-Galen? Galen, wait for me!"
Author: Anna Banks

5. "I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain."
Author: Arthur Rimbaud

6. "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time."
Author: Bela Lugosi

7. "Don't go wasting all them bright tomorrows you ain't even seen by hanging on to what happened yesterday. Let go, child. Just breathe out and let go."
Author: Beth Hoffman

8. "If I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away in pining and longing for your former good fortune. It is the loss of this which, as your imagination works upon you, has so corrupted your mind. I know the many disguises of that monster, Fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion"
Author: Boethius

9. "And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief."Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel."Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism."
Author: Brandon Mull

10. "I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles."
Author: Brock Yates

11. "An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
Author: C.S. Lewis

12. "Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food."
Author: Criss Jami

13. "She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King."
Author: Cynthia Weil

14. "I hate wasting people's time."
Author: Daniel Day Lewis

15. "I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."
Author: Daniel Keyes

16. "It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything."
Author: David Levithan

17. "I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude on solitude.When I was a kid I used to disappear into the woods all day. Now I can walk in the wilderness without wasting my valuable time. As I hike along I can call anyone in the world, schedule an appointment, take a picture of me standing next to a tree and then send the person a map so he or she can join me there. Solitude has been snuffed out."
Author: David Skibbins

18. "Pretty show, but you're wasting energy and time," Max said. "Mind if we get back to saving Horngate? You can go postal later."
Author: Diana Pharaoh Francis

19. "You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place! ...Your new life will be tinged with urgency, as though you're digging out the victims of an avalanche. If you're not spending every waking moment of your life living the truth, if you're not plotting every moment to boil the carcass of the old order, then you're wasting your day."
Author: Douglas Coupland

20. "Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward."
Author: Edsger W. Dijkstra

21. "Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing"
Author: Elizabeth Grace Saunders

22. "Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that."
Author: Eoin Colfer

23. "I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy."
Author: Giovanna Fletcher

24. "Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted."
Author: Greg Behrendt

25. "What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't."
Author: Hugh Prather

26. "Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban..."
Author: J.K. Rowling

27. "So that was how I spent nine months of my life. I felt like I was pregnant, except instead of giving life, I was wasting mine."
Author: Jarod Kintz

28. "Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and even though you wanted to believe you had an infinite supply of evenings available for wasting, you didn't."
Author: Jean Thompson

29. "It's all as if words, phrases, images, syntax were small glass beads from a necklace which was wrenched from some neck and spilled on the floor and down the sides of sofa cushions and armchairs and under bookshelves and maybe swallowed by the cat. I've got to find all the glass pieces before I can even reorder the color sequence, and restring it and tie it tighter than before. There's always a splendor in beginning all over. Even if it means getting on one's knees to search beneath that bookshelf or prospecting through years of lint and ashes beneath those cushions. Even if it means breaking open that cat's shit, which it conveniently has deposited in a plastic box, more orderly than any secretary could ever hope to be.Then I'll appreciate the value of each bead – rather, each word and image – that much more, never wasting another. And I will, I swear to myself, get it all back in time, string it all together, tighter, as I said, than before."
Author: Jim Carroll

30. "Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task.Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task"
Author: John Adair

31. "We would understand much more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations."
Author: José Saramago

32. "There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness."
Author: Judith Martin

33. "Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of the history books, a death camp survivor. It takes Willow a moment to realize that the girl is none of those things. She's just a girl, a girl like Willow, who's chosen to inflict terrible pain on herself. Only this girl's weapon isn't a razor, it's starvation."
Author: Julia Hoban

34. "You just ruined a perfectly delicious Danish!" I squawk at him."Man," he laughs, "note to self, don't mess with Elle's pastries."I scrape a giant hunk off my chin and smush it across his lips. He licks them and moans."Oh man, that is seriously one amazing Danish.""Now you understand." I laugh at him. I wipe my face off and we finish our treats without wasting anymore."
Author: K. Larsen

35. "But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God—if He exists, that is—strike me blind if the kite didn't just drop into his outstretched arms."
Author: Khaled Hosseini

36. "I guess I work in small ways. It's kind of like this story someone told me, about a guy on the beach in Mexico throwing starfish in the sea. Thousands had washed ashore. Someone asked him why - 'Why are you wasting your time, when there are so many? You can't possibly make a difference.'""I know that story! The man threw another one back, and said -""'Made a difference to that one!'" Rowan finishes."
Author: Kirsten Hubbard

37. "Destroy the Spineless. Show me it's real. Wasting our last chance to come away. Just break the silence 'cos I'm drifting away, away from you..."~New Born"
Author: Matthew J. Bellamy

38. "Dreaming big is better than wasting time achieving perfection"
Author: Me XD

39. "If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness."
Author: Mindy Kaling

40. "I'm not better, you know. The weight hasn't left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron's, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it's not an option now. It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility."
Author: Ned Vizzini

41. "In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,Around my fire an evening group to draw,And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,I still had hopes, my long vexations past,Here to return -- and die at home at last."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith

42. "...I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy."
Author: Peter S. Beagle

43. "Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably....!"
Author: Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela

44. "The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world."
Author: Richard Yates

45. "Wasting time is a stupid thing to do in this big ol' ugly world."
Author: Rochelle Maya Callen

46. "A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who demanded all of my body, time, life, emotions, and attention! As much as I loved my children, I often felt like a failure. Surely someone else could do a better job with these precious ones than I. And what exactly was I supposed to be accomplishing anyway? Was I wasting my time? What had this husband, who professed to love me, done to me?"
Author: Sally Clarkson

47. "We're wasting time here. I've got a sweet ass to paddle. Some legs to spread…"
Author: Starla Kaye

48. "STOP wasting precious life listening to lies spawning from the darkness...for the darkness can never tell the truth. Instead,listen inside yourself to the compelling truth of light...for it can never lie. When darkness tells you that you're a failure...believe you're not. When its despair urges you to QUIT...DON'T!"
Author: Timothy Pina

49. "Wasting talent is a sin. I'm not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I'm not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It's just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody's given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go."
Author: Vicki Covington

50. "And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time."
Author: Will Schwalbe

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