Top 1200 Waste Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.

Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter.

Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

Shaker pieces were not to show off. One was not to waste energy to decorate.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

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

Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn't matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.

The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

I eat everything. I love it! I couldn't deny myself food. What a waste of a life.

Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.

Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.