No Time To Waste Quotes

• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glowing, Romance, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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• There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

  Desiree Rogers

  Needs, Movement, Waste

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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• There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

  Julius Nyerere

  Waste

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• A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fire, Waste, Ass

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Waste, Planets

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Father, Cutting, Government

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Tasks, May

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.124

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• A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Careers, Wife

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