Alexander MacLaren Quotes

Don't waste your sorrows.

Alexander MacLaren

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• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Waste

• Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Waste

• Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Progression

• In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!

  

  Li Bingbing
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Against

• It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Alone

• My Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Young
  • Waste
  • Mice

• If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • Important
  • Priorities

• The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Missing

• Worry is a waste of imagination.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Imagination
  • Worry
  • Waste

• Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Mean
  • Growth
  • Waste

• In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Peace
  • City
  • Rest

• As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.

  

  James Hutton
  • Land
  • Waste
  • Observation

• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Earth
  • Clouds
  • Sorrows

• From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Brain
  • Sports
  • Sorrows

• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Loss
  • Waste
  • Worse

• I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Waste

• Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Development
  • Add
  • Old Things

• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Working
  • England

• American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

  

  R. W. Apple
  • American
  • Food
  • Light

• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

  

  Aristotle
  • High
  • Problem
  • Aim

• Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• Don't waste your sorrows.

  

  Alexander MacLaren
  • Waste
  • Sorrows