Top 1200 Waste Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Don't waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

Don't waste your singleness. I think we spend a lot of time griping about how we're single, and we spend a lot of time and energy being angry about that when we could be spending that time to really serve other people and use the free time we do have to do so much more for the Kingdom of God. So don't waste that time. Use it. You only get so much time and then you'll most likely get married and have kids and a husband and not have as much free time. So enjoy it and use it to serve other people.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That's just life.

Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.

Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

You can't waste time in your life trying to hide the truth.

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I don't really worry or waste my energy on where I rank and this and that. I know where I'm at.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.