Waste Quotes

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

~ Hafiz

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

~ John Steinbeck

A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.

~ Dan Fagin

The world is full of ways and means to waste time

~ Haruki Murakami

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

~ Elizabeth George

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.”He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

~ Richelle Mead

There are far too many people that waste their time telling themselves that they don’t have enough time.

~ Daniel Willey

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.

~ Joe Brooks

We waste this life dreaming of another.

~ Marty Rubin

Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another's or your own.

~ Kyle Barger

This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

~ Lauren Oliver

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

~ Bertrand Russell

If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time.

~ Harold Eugene Edgerton

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

~ Zeeshan Ahmed

A gifted man does not waste his life on women.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing.

~ Seneca

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

[Olive’s] left foot was bleeding through a wide swath of bandages onto the tarp it was resting on. The bowl next to her was full of blood.Olive looked a little pale. “I don’t think I should move,” she said.“What are you doing?” Roger shut the door behind him and stood with his back to it.“I decided I might try to eat my toes,” Olive said, closing her eyes. “But now that I’ve started, I don’t think I should move.”Roger pushed himself off the wall and knelt down next to her. He unbuckled her silver belt and reached with it under her dress. He looped the belt around the top of her leg and tightened it. His hands were not shaking. “Sit on the loose end,” he said, pushing it under her. “I hope that works.”“You brought flowers,” she said, blinking.“Olive,” he said. “You cut off your toes.”She looked down at the bowl. “Are they still toes?” she asked.

~ Amelia Gray

If you do not waste, you do not want.

~ Syed Ather

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

~ Philip Johnson

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

~ Bill Gates

Insecurity is a waste of time.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

~ Marguerite Duras

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

~ William Wordsworth

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

~ Jeanne Marie Laskas

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

~ Douglas Southall Freeman