Wasting Time Quotes
501 Wasting Time quotes by 443 unique authors
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It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
— A. J. Jacobs
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Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he…
— Jennifer Crusie
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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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lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some…
— Stephen Fry
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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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Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean…
— Terry Pratchett
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She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never…
— Gail Carriger
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If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends.…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A life is not a waste of time
— Nalini Singh
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The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
— Gerard Way
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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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Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
— L. Frank Baum
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When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
— Seth Godin
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Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as…
— Georgette Heyer
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Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning,…
— Brother Lawrence
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
— Robert Jordan
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If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme,…
— Jefferson Bass
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Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
— Eoin Colfer
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I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
— Andy Andrews
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre…
— Tom Robbins
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The world is full of ways and means to waste time.
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Wasting Time Quotes
443 authors contributed a total of 501 Wasting Time Quotes, led by these top contributors: