Top 1200 Waste Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us.

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

We should take Democrats at their word when they say never let a crisis go to waste.

I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.

Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Like most Montanans, I get pretty upset when I hear about waste.

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.