Best Wastes Quotations
147 Wastes quotes by 127 unique authors
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This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.
— Ralph Nader
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You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things.…
— John F. Carlson
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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
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In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but…
— John Wooden
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The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood,…
— John Dryden
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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
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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
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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as…
— Sylvia Earle
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
— Samuel Johnson
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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…
— William Penn
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I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city…
— Clive Barker
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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
— George S. Clason
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In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
— Beth Moore
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But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.…
— Alejandra Pizarnik
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,…
— J. G. Ballard
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
— Wendell Berry
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,…
— Laurence Sterne
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
— Edith Wharton
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