Wasted Quotes

841 Wasted quotes by 650 unique authors

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. — Garrison Keillor
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. — Drew Barrymore
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you… — Jerry Spinelli
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good.… — Louis Sachar
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs… — William Shakespeare
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How… — Leo Buscaglia
The future is just wasted on some people. — Chuck Palahniuk
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think… — Rudyard Kipling
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted. — Max Brooks
Time spent with a cat is never wasted. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… — Angela Carter
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a… — Henry Miller
Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. — Hillary Clinton
Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered. — Nora Roberts
Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older. — Sloane Crosley
Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent. — Thomas S. Monson
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. — E. M. Forster
...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is… — John O'Donohue
It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels… — Ayn Rand
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my… — Anne Rice
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... — Carl Jung

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