Waste Quotes - page 3

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. (Dale Carnegie)
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart. View quote
Robert Browning
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. View quote
Hannah More
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. View quote
Rahm Emanuel
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? View quote
Bill Watterson
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. View quote
Malcolm X
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. View quote
Walter Scott
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. View quote
Jef Raskin
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. View quote
William Empson
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. View quote
Manuel Puig
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. View quote
Helen Reddy
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. View quote
Frances Willard
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. View quote
Bob Riley
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. (Christine Baranski)
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own. View quote
Debra Wilson
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. View quote
Candice Bergen
I have gone into the waste lonely places Behind the eye. View quote
Theodore Roethke