Wasted Quotes
841 Wasted quotes by 650 unique authors
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Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there…
— Henry Rollins
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time…
— James Mercer
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The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized…
— Michelle Grabner
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
— Shirley Temple
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal,…
— Bill McKibben
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We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
— Les Brown
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A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a…
— Russell Smith
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act.…
— Arthur L. Herman
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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
— Brendan Behan
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Youth is wasted on the young.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the…
— Russell Hoban
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All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
— Bill Owens
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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
— Ronnie Hawkins
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Nothing is wasted.
— E. V. Lucas
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is…
— Karel Capek
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Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun…
— Simone Schwarz-Bart
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted…
— Arturo Toscanini
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This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
— Greta Garbo
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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
— John Wanamaker
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The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by…
— Lawrence Eagleburger
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I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself…
— Mick Cornett
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If…
— Henry Rollins
Who Wrote These Wasted Quotes
650 authors contributed a total of 841 Wasted Quotes, led by these top contributors: