Wasted Quotes
841 Wasted quotes by 650 unique authors
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We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our…
— James St. James
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When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
— Margaret Atwood
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Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that…
— John Irving
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Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not…
— Dean Karnazes
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The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our…
— John Green
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.
— Cassandra Clare
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Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of…
— Mordecai Richler
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I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice…
— Stephen Chbosky
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You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that…
— Isak Dinesen
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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected…
— Unknown Author
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It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then…
— John Piper
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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it…
— John Piper
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Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted;…
— Ayn Rand
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Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
— Don DeLillo
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And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you…
— Daniel Handler
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If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons
— Karen Marie Moning
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or…
— Peter Ackroyd
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when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it…
— Marian Keyes
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I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.
— Elmore Leonard
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic –…
— P.D. James
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
— Alice Hoffman
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No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move…
— John Calvin
Who Wrote These Wasted Quotes
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