Wasting Quotes

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. (Thomas Jefferson)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. View quote
Etty Hillesum
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. View quote
John Lennon
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. View quote
Billy Joel
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth. View quote
Roberto Clemente
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it. View quote
Norton Juster
That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera. (Kent McCord)
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. View quote
Sherrod Brown
Wasting time has an esthetics to it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. View quote
Ramakrishna
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. View quote
Daniel Keyes
You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both. View quote
Kate Chopin
You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. View quote
Nhat Hanh
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time. View quote
Henry Rollins
If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day. (Douglas Coupland)
What fools call "wasting time” is most often the best investment. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. View quote
Malcolm X
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. View quote
H. L. Mencken