Quotes of: Wasteful-spending Keyword

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Every Man Dies Alone

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

The Great Gatsby

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

How Should a Person Be?

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Half Broke Horses

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.

Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

Bright Young Things

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ , Oct. 10, 1842]

The American Notebooks

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Infinite in All Directions

That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can’t throw it away because it isn’t perfect.

Siren Beloved

Know that dreaming is a waste of sleeping time and energy if you don’t wake up to achieve them.

Shaping the dream

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.

Manhattan Loverboy

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.

Mirror

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

Night World, No. 1

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

The Naming

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The Lady Elizabeth

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Of Love and Shadows

..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.

The Last Unicorn