Waste Quotes
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We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.
Vladimir Putin
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Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
Anna Godbersen
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Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste.
Evan Wright
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
Robert Frost
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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
Carol S. Dweck
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The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Westbrook Pegler
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Seth Godin
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We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
Moon Unit Zappa
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Confucius
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The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.
Nikola Tesla
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War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.
Eugene B. Sledge
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The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.
Arthur Nersesian
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It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
Conn Iggulden
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
Kate Thornton
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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
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Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.
Charles de Foucauld
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
Rex Stout
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Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
Sandra Bullock
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There was only this one life to live; the unpardonable sin was to waste it.
Bel Kaufman
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I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.
Barry Hughart
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It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
Catherynne M. Valente