Top 171 Wasted Quotes

I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that’s him!

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.

I think as soon as you’re a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women’s interviews are being wasted on talking about what it’s like being a woman.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

You’re able to do more when you’re not clouded with wasted anxiety.

At its heart, ‘Fat City’ is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you’d realized it earlier.

The 1990s was not just Japan’s ‘wasted decade,’ it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

I have tried so many fad diets, I’ve wasted so much time looking for a solution when it was right in front of me all along – take care of yourself, nourish your body, surround yourself with good people – you will feel good and will shine in all that you do.

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Flowers would be wasted on me. I don’t like valentines. I don’t need gifts. I’m a pragmatic romantic.

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don’t have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that’s what was so fabulous about him – he was very down to earth.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don’t want anyone to worry their life away – time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I’m working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

I’m a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity… It’s so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.

Bad movies are when people go, ‘oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don’t even want to go back again.’

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Hours wasted in traffic represent not only lost wages but enormous amounts of economic activity that might have happened. Congestion indirectly increases consumer prices, makes travel times unreliable for commuters and truckers, and precludes many people from accessing jobs in urban hubs.

I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don’t believe in. If you believe in the third party, that’s the guy you need to voice for. That’s how you change things.

I don’t like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

It’s appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

Things happen every day. You can’t spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you’ve wasted your life.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on ‘Ilustrado.’

There are no shortcuts, and you can’t wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.

We have a space agency desperately in need of purpose, whose employees and capabilities have been wasted for decades on make-work projects and dead-end PowerPoint pioneering placebos designed to do nothing more than keep the billing high.

I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.

Imagine – four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists’ naive failure to grasp the importance of building strong economies.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I’ve got nothing out of it.

I haven’t wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.

I believe that there are many talented Filipinos and their talent is great and globally competitive, just waiting to be tapped. I don’t want such great talent to be wasted.

States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they’ve wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It’s only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn’t living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.