Wasting Time Quotes - Page 7

• I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

  Norman Mailer

  Thinking, Waste, Internet

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• Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Careers, Waste

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

  Pierce Brosnan

  Regret, Waste, Gloating

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• The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

  Wilkie Collins

  Reading, Writing, Years

  Wilkie Collins (2014). “My Miscellanies”, p.60, The Floating Press

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• You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I’d rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Men, Watches

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.6, Macmillan

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• love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

  Jack Johnson

  Together, Energy, Tonight

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• And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

  Anne Stuart

  Ocean, Care, Matter

  Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books

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• What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Life, Stupid, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jan 13, 2013

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• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, Believe, Mean

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• Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

  David Archuleta

  Years, Age, Mindless

  Song: Stomping The Roses, Album: The Other Side Of Down, 2010

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• The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humble, Men

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• And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Care, Want

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• I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

  Cindy Gerard

  Waste, Subtlety

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.45, Macmillan

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• This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

  Jay-Z

  Two, Soul, Way

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.301, Random House Group

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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Suicide, Lying

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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 time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Lying, Believe, Long

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Alive, Useless, Emotion

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.623, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Life, Book, Waste

  Jayne Ann Krentz (2008). “Running Hot: An Arcane Society Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

  Ward Connerly

  Party, Names, Race

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• In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

  Mary Ruefle

  Lonely, Reading, Kids

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• It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.

  Coco Ho

  World, Waste, Considering

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

  Celia Imrie

  Hurt, Selfish, Love Life

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• We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Girl, America

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• I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

  Yanni

  Single, Regret, Past

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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