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Quotes About Wasted

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
~ Colley Cibber
Well, this day was a total waste of make-up.
~ Unknown
It's not pregame'n if you have absolutely nowhere to go & nothing to do afterwards. Thats just simply gettin drunk & being a loser
~ Unknown
Your best efforts will never be enough when your best efforts are being wasted on the wrong person.
~ Unknown
For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.
~ Rafael Sabatini
Guilt washes over me when I think of the wasted years and how blind I was to my own faults. It has been hard to confess. I am so thankful to now know my place as my husband's helper and friend.
~ Debi Pearl
How true it is that youth is wasted on the young, for they are unable to envision all the possibilities.
~ Unknown
He's the original recycler,' agreed Peter. 'He collects conversations and events then uses them years later, against you. Recycle, retaliate, repulse. Nothing's ever wasted with our Thomas.
~ Louise Penny
this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.
~ John Adams
This continent is littered coast to coast with people who were compelled to study business administration when they should have been painting murals or practicing the fiddle or digging a truck garden, and finally got their chance when it was twenty years too late to lead them anywhere.
~ John Brunner
Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.
~ John C. Maxwell
I never regret my past, I just regret the whole time I have wasted with the wrong people. Who didn't even deserve my efforts.
~ Unknown
Kisses are not kisses unless they're tasted. Kisses blown are kisses wasted. kisses spread germs & germs are hated. but you can kiss me baby I'm vaccinated.
~ Unknown
The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.
~ Roger Waters
I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
~ Dodie Smith
I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues.
~ Unknown
if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have no moral purpose, no real sense of duty to anything. It seems only a few months ago that I was twenty-one – full of hopes … all disappointed.
~ John Fowles
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of people she had met.
~ John Irving
Debating his directives only wasted time and made her look bad. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
~ John Jackson Miller
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
~ J. K. Rowling
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
~ Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
~ John Irving
I see a squashed soda can on the side of the rode. And I know how it must feel. Used up and discarded.
~ Unknown