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Wastefulness Quotes (page 31)

Haruki Murakami quote: "The world is full of ways and means to waste time."
The world is full of ways and means to waste time. Haruki Murakami
The lord of distant archery, Apollo, answered: "Lord of earthquake, sound of mindyou could not call me if I strove with youfor the sake of mortals, poor things that they are. Ephemeral as the flamelike budding leaves, men flourish on the ripe wheat of the grainland, then in spiritless age they waste and die. Homer
Alice Hoffman quote: "Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would..."
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost. Alice Hoffman
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling... Gordon B. Hinckley
Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity. Irvine Welsh
I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives. David Sedaris
That’s Edward. He’s gorgeous, of course, but don’t waste your time. He doesn’t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him. Stephenie Meyer
There is no English equivalent for the French word flneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the... Cornelia Otis Skinner
I held herwrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless andsick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as Iand all my poems werefalse. Charles Bukowski
He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here. Eugene O'Neill
Drew Barrymore quote: "If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul."
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. Drew Barrymore
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. Alan Watts
Wendell Berry quote: "The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride,..."
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. Wendell Berry
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted. Terry Prachett
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

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