Top 323 Waste Quotes

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Dean Kamen
All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
Jim Garrison
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
Zac Goldsmith
Walmart was built on the idea that we could give our customers access to the items they need every day at the lowest prices by eliminating waste and managing our expenses better than the competition.
Doug McMillon
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
Malala Yousafzai
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Kim Wilde
I don’t do filler songs. I don’t get them. They don’t make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn’t hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won’t play it live.
Betty Who
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
Will Hurd
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they’re so good. He doesn’t waste any words.
Elmore Leonard
Traditional technical interviews are terrible for every

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They’re a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They’re a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
Jon Evans
No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.
Shruti Haasan
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there’s still waste in the military budget.
Rand Paul
In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?
Robert Vaughn
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation… and we can’t waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren’t up for an awesome responsibility.
Leonard Bailey
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work – catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga
By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.
Jim Ryun
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
John Woolman
My hatred is precious. I don’t want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
Andrea Dworkin
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then… I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
Italo Calvino
Sociological critics are waste makers.
Andy Warhol
When I learned about this tragedy that’s happening in Midway – you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste – I just felt drawn there magnetically.
Chris Jordan
It’s better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
Hal Sparks
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself – and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good – but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
Rachel Cusk
We shouldn’t waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state’s structure.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.
Sara Paretsky
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats
On the Sandy bill, I did the best I could on waste, fraud and abuse, and then when the final bill comes, you don’t say, ‘Hell, no’ because you didn’t get everything you want in there.
Scott Garrett
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
George Matthew Adams
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.
Frances Farmer
There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Robert Greene
I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
Yves Behar
I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It’s one of our senses and it’s be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.
Nacho Figueras
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don’t need experts?
Cornelia Parker
We need to root out the waste and abuse that is rampant in our state agencies. When we do that and grow the economy, we will be able to fund the vital programs and services we need.
Charlie Baker
Don’t get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.
Jonathan Dee
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.
Daniel Starch
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
Donald Glover
Our life is our life. If we waste it, we’re fools.
Sissy Spacek
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
Paul Gillmor
One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation’s sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.
Charles Duhigg
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
I don’t waste time being depressed.
Marc Andreessen
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: ‘Somebody died when they were 73; good life’. You’re closer to death, and you better make sure you don’t waste too much of your time doing things you don’t want to do. No point in saying things you don’t believe in.
Ian Mckellen
You know how some people get worked up about things? That’s a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don’t know – like, I feel like I don’t want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.
Naomi Osaka
I tend to ‘splurge’ for convenience. I’ll pay a lot to not waste time.
Tom Anderson
Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.
Stephen Hough
I can’t have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
Azim Premji
There’s a lot of talent out there that miss their opportunities, and I just hope that AJ Styles doesn’t waste his life in TNA.
Bret Hart
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
Cormac McCarthy
After a while, you just don’t do things you don’t wanna do – that’s the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won’t be a waste of time.
Nick Cave
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
Every time a child’s promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Wendy Kopp
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
Berkeley Breathed
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
David R. Brower
I’m a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
Alan Ball
I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.
Meryl Streep