Squandering Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in… — Alan Watts
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions… — Pope John Paul II
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet. — Fidel Castro
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI
The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of… — Jimmy Carter
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead… — Joe Baca
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering… — Carl Bernstein
You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to… — Louie Giglio
The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you… — Helen DeWitt
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all. — Will Durant
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... — Alan Hollinghurst
We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after… — Learned Hand
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source… — Eric Burdon
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful… — William Booth
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on… — Christopher Isherwood
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts… — BrenÃ© Brown
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — William Cowper
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full… — Jeffrey Kluger
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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