Quotes of: Wasteful-spending Keyword

So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

On the Shortness of Life

How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Smoke

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

The Pillars of the Earth

Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?

Paperboy

If you were ready to sleep with me we wouldn't be in this bar, but in my room not wasting any more time.

Patch Up

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The Unsettled Dust

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

When you use your pen to think, you’re never wasting ink.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Carl Hiaasen

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Meditations

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Nellie McKay

A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week.

Onyi Anyado

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Ovid

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Russ Carnahan

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Richard Lugar

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

Ryan Lilly

Why you crying, Smile ! No point wasting time getting upset over something that cant be fixed, move on an learn from it.

Samuel Victor David Evans

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

Tristram Stuart

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Karen Finerman

The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

A. Kamalei

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Kay Ryan