Wasting Quotes

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Happy, Care

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

Time, Enjoy, Wasted

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Enjoy, Wasted

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Greatest, Precious

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
Mitch Hedberg

Time, Good, Why

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson

Life, Opinion, Whole

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcom X

Men, Anyone, Practice

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna

Faith, Brain, Energy

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Love, God

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Steve Martin

Tired, Period, Letters

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
Billy Joel

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

Life, Happiness, Brain

I hate wasting time.
Robert Plant

I hate wasting people's time.
Daniel Day-Lewis

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.
Heath Ledger

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. Howe

Time, Men, Business

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Dean Kamen

Time, Important, Working

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Candidates

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile Gebrselassie

Time, Father, Sensible

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
Brad Pitt

Trying, Two, Days

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
David Miliband

Life, Time, Hate

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
Sherrod Brown

Government, Corruption, Big

I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things - then she should not give the guy a chance as she's wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives.
Patti Stanger

Time, Woman, Give

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
Dave Grohl

Time, Sleep, Night

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Time, Dating, Person

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Money, Government, Legal

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
Robert Carlyle

Someone, Vote, Believes

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
Ed Koch

Life, Nothing, Lived

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Money, Winning, American

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov

Time, Respect, Confidence

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