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Quotes About Wasted

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time.
~ Anna M. Aquino
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
~ Aristotle
Everyday you are living minutes you will never get back.
~ Sharfaraz Ahmed
Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.
~ William Boyd
the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and his dreams
~ William Graham Lorenzo Haehnle
In the silence of her nonanswer, I considered the possibility that I was a very boring person. Who else but a boring person would utter such meaningless trifles? If a brilliant pig, the prodigy of the barnyard, spent his entire life learning Russian, and on finally becoming proficient the first words he heard were my own, he would wonder why he had wasted his best years when he could have been lolling in the mud, eating slop with the other dumb beasts.
~ David Benioff
Thus 'how do we know…?' is transformed into 'by what authority do we claim…?' The latter question is a chimera that may well have wasted more philosophers' time and effort than any other idea. It converts the quest for truth into a quest for certainty (a feeling) or for endorsement (a social status). This misconception is called justificationism.
~ David Deutsch
Then said I, Lord, how long [will people be like this]? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate [in other words, as long as people are around],
~ David J. Ridges
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
~ Lionel Suggs
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
~ Carl Jung
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
~ Lisa Alther
The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
~ Monica Drake, Clown Girl
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.I have wasted my life.
~ James Wright
life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing
~ Jane Marks
I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
~ Janet Fitch
I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
~ Janet Fitch
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
~ Alexander Herzen
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
~ Billie Holiday
Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.
~ Dominic Holland
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!
~ Dan Pena