Wasting Quotes
525 Wasting quotes by 418 unique authors
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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
— Isabel Allende
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things…
— Jodi Picoult
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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
— Eric Hoffer
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I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that…
— Stephen King
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What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.
— Cassandra Clare
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Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you…
— Cassandra Clare
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I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
— Ellen Hopkins
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
— John Milton
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It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they…
— Henry Rollins
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
— A. J. Jacobs
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Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.
— Richelle Mead
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
— Wendell Berry
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Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children…
— Gregory Maguire
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time…
— Hugh Prather
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dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.
— Kurt Cobain
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No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand…
— Pablo Neruda
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness.…
— Rajneesh
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The wasting of finite resources is everyones business
— Stephenie Meyer
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Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And…
— Paulo Coelho
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more…
— David Nicholls
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
— Seth Godin
Who Wrote These Wasting Quotes
418 authors contributed a total of 525 Wasting Quotes, led by these top contributors: