Wasting Time Quotes - Page 20

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

  Rhoda Janzen

  Waste, Love Someone

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.217, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

  Dolores Cannon

  Growing, Earth, Accomplish

  Dolores Cannon (2011). “The Three Waves of Volunteers & the New Earth”, p.14, Ozark Mountain Publishing

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• Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

  Eva Burrows

  Waiting, Serenity, Inner Beauty

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

  Milan Kundera

  Travel, Two, Space

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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• I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

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• Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Trying, Buttons, Hot

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.198, Bantam

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• Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

  Lorrie Moore

  Waste, Projects

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.262, Vintage

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• Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

  David Baldacci

  Attention, Warning, Waste

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Baby, I don’t feel pain. Ever. (Talon) Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine) It’s a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon) But without pain, you can’t have joy. It’s the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Pain, Sunshine

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• Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Doe, Want, Waste

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Regret, Waste, Fool

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Waste, Eternity

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Imperfection, Trying, Weakness

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• But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

  Norton Juster

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  Wangari Maathai

  Children, Waste, Responsible

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• I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Stones, Waste, Reason Why

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• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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

  Paula Radcliffe

  Worry, Waste, Dislike

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• Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce.

  Damian Marley

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Song: There For You, Album: Welcome to Jamrock, 2005

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• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Sweet, Eye

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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• It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Opportunity, Energy

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