Waste Quotes - page 6

Alone! - that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning. View quote
Tony Buzan
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God. View quote
Albert Camus
Frugality. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. Waste nothing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. View quote
Henri de Lubac
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing. View quote
Omar Khayyám
A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste! View quote
Omar Khayyám
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. View quote
Florence Nightingale
You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us. (David Ben-Gurion)
If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember. View quote
Masiela Lusha
Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's- you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody- why are we on a traffic island?" View quote
Dylan Moran
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.... View quote
Helen Keller
The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it. View quote
Natasha Kaplinsky
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. View quote
John Steinbeck
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. View quote
Stephen King
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. View quote
Edward de Bono
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. View quote
Edward Everett
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. (Simon Singh)
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. View quote
Tom Robbins
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! View quote
William Wordsworth
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London