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I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money. — Marc Reisner

No burglar wastes his time burgling authors. — P.G. Wodehouse

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett

Employment wastes the productive time of our lives — Sunday Adelaja

A bad process wastes your brain cycles. A good process leverages them to maximum advantage. — Anonymous

Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes. — Vikrmn

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. — William Penn

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a — George S. Clason

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't! — Phyllis Chesler

Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All — William Graham Sumner

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. — Tom Peters

How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It's a travesty when a woman wastes herself. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation. — Laura Bohannan

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. — Wendell Berry

If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster. — James Altucher

You don't need to use your hand to Push," Gemmel grumbled at him. "Wastes time. — Brandon Sanderson

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. — Cyril Connolly

A surgeon needs to be calm. Worry just wastes time. It — Brandon Sanderson

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. — R. K. Milholland

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. — Wendy Kopp

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. — John Adams

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. — Oscar Wilde

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig. — Anthony De Mello

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable. — David Levithan

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all. — Catherynne M Valente

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp

Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy. — Joe Hyams

If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both. — George R R Martin

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old. — George Sand

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important. — Fred Brooks

'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? — Irving Stone

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. — Edmund Waller

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. — Gilbert Highet

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name. — A.B. Simpson

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. — Beth Moore

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. — Carl Sandburg

Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes. — Richard Davenport-Hines

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world. — Margery Allingham

He who wastes his talents must not ask for more. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone. — Max Barry

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi

The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time. — Jennifer Niven

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it. — Sandra Bullock

A writer wastes nothing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein

As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. — Lois McMaster Bujold

And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what unspeakable crime
Have you made your life worth? — W. D. Snodgrass

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. — Richard Lugar

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. — Sharon Salzberg

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes? — John Banville

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually. — Kate Adie

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable. — Douglas Preston

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system. — Rod Coronado

So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night. — Clemence Housman

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. — Wilfred Owen

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today — Seneca The Younger

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away. — Hippocrates

God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey. — Sarah Jakes

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated. — F. R. Scott

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. — Annie Besant

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed. — Keanu Reeves

Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other. — Penny Reid

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. — Willa Cather

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. — Khaled Hosseini

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. — George MacDonald

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. — Jack London

Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy. — Diane Ackerman

For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for. — Cassandra Golds

When we waste our time, our time wastes us — Robin Sharma

Multitasking doesn't save time - it wastes time. — Gary Keller

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. — Norman Vincent Peale

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy. — Sandra Brown

28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. — Anonymous

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea. — William Sharp

A king is but a foolish labourer
Who wastes his blood to be another's dream.
-from Fergus and the Druid — W.B.Yeats

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use. — Julian Lennon

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess. — John C. Maxwell

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch. — Anne Wojcicki

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life. — Larry McMurtry

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions? — L.J.Smith

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. — Euripides

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime. — Charlie Papazian

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. — Honore De Balzac

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment. — William Penn

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding. — Benjamin Franklin