Quotes of: Wasting-time Keyword

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?

Anna Jean Ouellette

You are one of those million attempts by God to change the World. Don't waste it.

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.

Tom Swyers

In the 1991 movie, , Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: "One." Choose one thing. Do it to the best of your ability. Let ...

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

This is stupid." "Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You th...

The Heroes

He glanced over at me. 'Scared? Of Reggie? What, she thinks he might force her to give up caffeine for real or something?' 'No,' I said. 'Of what, then?' he asked. I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home....

Lock and Key

I lent my ear to the patient's lips - so close that I could feel his fetid, warm breath on my skin. "Can you tell me where I can find Señora Jucinta Coronado?" I asked for the last time. I was afraid he'd bite me. Instead he emitted a violently loud...

The Shadow of the Wind

Fathead Newman: Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine me for being late. Ray Charles: What time did you get here? Fathead Newman: What? Just now. The band's still setting up. Jeff never... Joe Adams: I'm not Jeff. Fathead Newman: That's a fact...

Ray

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Contact

Sarcasm is wasted on those who haven’t had a decent night’s sleep, my darling.

The Gravity of Birds

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Beginner's Luke

A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.

Russell Smith

There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

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

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