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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

  Strong Women, Boys, Weak Man

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• Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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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

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

  Stephen King

  Risk, Increase, Enormous

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Waste today, want tomorrow.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Today, Tomorrow

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.362, Hachette UK

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• How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Talking, Space, Quiet

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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 waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Talking, Eels, Wasting Time

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

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• We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Girl, Waiting

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Rain, Night

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on you. Last time around, you threw yourself at me.” “I did no such thing.” “Sure you did. But I can see I've got my work cut out for me this time. That's okay.” He skimmed his thumb over her knuckles before she jerked her hand free. “In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy it.” “I don't know why I waste my time trying to mend fences with you. You're as arrogant as you ever were.” “Just the way you like me, sweetheart.

  Nora Roberts

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

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• Children, don't waste a single second.
  Serve others, above all the poor,
  expecting nothing in return.
  Just as the person who offers God flowers
  is the first to enjoy their fragrance,
  the person who offers compassion
  is the first to receive its blessing.
  Wherever a heart beats
  with compassion:
  God is there.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Flower, Heart

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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, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.

  Jefferson Bass

  Hero, Play, Giving

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• Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Avonlea”, p.235, First Avenue Editions

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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 silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

  James Patterson

  Responsibility, World Love, Life And Death

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• The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, World, Way

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• This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

  James Frey

  Wall, Heart, Eye

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.262, Anchor

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Worry, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  Mary Schmich

  Jealousy, Wasting Time, Sometimes

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

  Susane Colasanti

  Real, Waiting, No Excuses

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• You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Glasses, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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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 and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Happiness, Past, Impossible

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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Change, Faces, Revolution

  Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.54, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strength, People, Stronger

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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