Top 1200 Haste Makes Waste Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we're the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Each year Citizens Against Government Waste releases the 'Congressional Pig Book.' Outrage over spending for shrimp on treadmills, combating Goth culture studies, bridges to nowhere, etc. ensues for about a week, and then the waste continues.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

I'm not someone who will make a decision in haste and let loneliness decide the wrong partner for me.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food.

Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.