Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.
All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Don't waste your time on life.
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?