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147 Wastes quotes by 127 unique authors
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded…
— Ernst Junger
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Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A writer wastes nothing.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to…
— Victor Hugo
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I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
— Sandra Brown
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The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it…
— Janice Galloway
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only:…
— Pablo Picasso
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant…
— Emily Bronte
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In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is…
— David Mitchell
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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had…
— John Banville
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair…
— Edmund Waller
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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
— Samuel Johnson
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Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make…
— Baron d'Holbach
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry...
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove…
— Jimmy Carter
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I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and…
— Julian Lennon
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A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and…
— Joan Didion
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In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and…
— Charles Koch
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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
— Anne Wojcicki
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