Waste Quotes - Page 36

• I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Pain, Sunset

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• Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

  Jorge Cruise

  Track, Focus, Challenges

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• Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

  Peter De Vries

  Punishment, Delay, Arguing

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• So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Knowing, Prejudice

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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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• ... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, People, Sake

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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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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• Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Christmas, Heart, Grace

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• I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.

  Mac Thornberry

  Country, Organization, Financial

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

  M. Shadows

  Hate, People, Trying

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• The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

  Carl Sandburg

  Technology, Watches, Machines

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Toxic Waste, Dancing, Singing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.169, Random House

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• No, I'm not gay. And I think it would be a waste with all those pretty girls in the front row.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

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• We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

  Eli Attie

  Wings, Bird, Wish

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• I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Crush, Growth, Atheism

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

  John Donne

  Goodness, Greediness, Thousand

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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

  James Bryce

  Book, Poor, More Time

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• Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teaching, Effort, Energy

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

  John Lyly

  Giving, Poverty, Wealth

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• People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Greed, Too Much

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Fighting, Thinking, Views

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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