Waste Quotes - Page 13

• Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Hate, Men

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• In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

  Lord Byron

  Sympathy, Bird, Tree

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.496, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  William Whipple

  Sorry, Apology, Long

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• Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

  Robert Greene

  Flower, Wind, Purple

  Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson (188?). “The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson”

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• Don't waste the opportunity.

  Horace

  Latin, Opportunity

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• Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.

  Thomas Merton

  Humble, Humility, People

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• The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

  Arnold Bennett

  Motivational, New Year, Lying

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• The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

  James Cromwell

  Impact, Environmental Health, Issues

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• Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Beauty, Delightful, Enjoyed

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• He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Skins

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• Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

  Walter Scott

  Simple, Race, Toil

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 4, ad fin.

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• Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Live Life, Preparing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.342, Рипол Классик

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• War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

  Coleen Rowley

  War, Lying, Answers

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• You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

  Steven Moffat

  Boss, Wasting Time, Should

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

  George Sand

  Winter, Twenties, Aging

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• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Country, Travel, Character

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• If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Wisdom, Ambition, Buddhism

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• We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

  Anthony de Mello

  Night, Light, Worry

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, Government, Land

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• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Sorrow, Vines

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

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• There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

  Mark Twain

  Encouragement, Stress, Issues

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