Quotes About Wasting

It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again!

Simply put, unsavories have a need to despise the system. To facilitate that, I had to create a system worthy of loathing. In reality, there is no actual need for people to take a number, or to wait for long periods of time. There isn't even a need for an intake agent. It's all designed to make unsavories feel as if the system is wasting their time. The illusion of inefficiency serves the specific purpose of creating annoyance around which unsavories can bond. - The Thunderhead

people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice…

She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault.

Even her hair is exhausting. She calls it "Auburn Balayage." I call it wasting six hundred dollars every six weeks to pretend that at forty-four she has the same hair she did at eighteen.

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. He

It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

it came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.

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.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Never before had time seemed so like currency, each moment a coin that could be well- or ill-spent, or even, if one wasn't careful, wasted and lost.

Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again?

Seems all my life I had to make choices between what I considered wasting money and what I now see was wasting my life. If it keeps you from wasting your life, it can't very well be a waste, now can it?

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting tissue? And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us.

I know it's my day off," she said to DJ, who looked up as she threw herself into her chair. "I have reasons for wasting my life in this room.

You're a world-class but you are definitely not a tease, Cabot said. You've got a few issues. So do I. Different kind of issues, though. Issues are issues. We're wasting time here. Are you going to kiss me or not?

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.