Quotes about Wasting

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

The clinical evidence is that she is dying. Her body is wasting away, she cannot process food and she is suffering.

Norman Ford

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

Stephanie Contreras

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

D.h. Lawrence

Lose a few of these, or let them become obsolete, and you're wasting significant dollars.

John Walko

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

It's a small field (in Buxton), and it's another reason why we encouraged more passing, because you couldn't dribble anyway it was too crowded. We tried to keep it wide, and it was one issue we had this past weekend and against Cape Henry (all losses), we were getting the ball wide and making crosses, and the inside people weren't following the play, and we were wasting crosses.

Mark Cross

I think we have to use it real wisely because if not, we'll be just wasting a lot of money just throwing it away.

Jose Gonzalez

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Jackie Robinson

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

Robert Townsend

I could fix all the houses in Price Hill and it wouldn't do any good unless the human infrastructure is in shape. People have got to want to live in the neighborhood. Nice parks, good schools, strong churches, diversity, economic development -- if you don't have those things in place, then I'm wasting my time.

Matt Strauss

Gas flaring wastes resources and harms the environment. It also deprives developing country consumers of an energy source that is cleaner and often cheaper than others available. Using that gas rather than wasting it would stimulate economic development.

Rashad Kaldany

There is a real danger that the public will not heed official advice to stop wasting water if they continue to see the water company as the biggest culprit.

Darren Johnson

The bottom line is, with elk being shipped to slaughter due to brucellosis and with chronic wasting disease looming on the horizon, business as usual is not acceptable anymore.

Tim Preso

This law only affects students who are doing well in school, since there are already minimum GPA requirements to receive financial aid. So, if a student is wasting all their time with drugs and not studying or going to class, they're going to lose their aid anyway.

Tom Angell

You'd think that the person who left the deer and basically wasted it could be cited with wasting wild game.

Gary Craig

Really the last couple of times out we've really done a much better job of pitch selection with our hitting. We are hitting pitches we can hit hard instead of wasting at bats on stuff that is crappy. We've really looked very disciplined at the plate mentally and the results are you are going to hit the ball harder.

Brian Morrison

It's a big struggle. Civil society organizations are constantly wasting time responding to irresponsible statements like these.

Nathan Geffen

I think I'm one of those people that if I wasn't doing something, I'd feel like I was wasting my time.

Brianne Woodley

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Robert Friedman

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Paul Bremer

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Aamir Khan

…instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.

Tony Blair

I was horrified at what I saw going on in the prison system. People were serving life terms for crimes they didn't commit. Lives were wasting away.

Robin Sohnen

Idling is very inefficient and creates a lot of pollution. If they have a hybrid with a lot of electrical power, they could operate the air conditioner or heater without all the emissions and without wasting gasoline.

Robert Schumacher

Whitney did a good job of mixing things up. We have talked about that (wasting solid pitching performances). We have a good enough pitching staff to keep us in games. We have to start hitting the ball better.

Dana Fiedler

It looks like more log rolling, more wasting of time.

David Cubberley

It was pretty much a fiasco. They ended up wasting a day that those kids could have better spent in class or doing what they were going to do at the park.

Steve Mulvenon

I would like to see us stop wasting precious research dollars putting religious practices to the test of science. It's a waste of money, and it trivializes the religious experience.

Richard Sloan

I wouldn't be wasting my time if I didn't think he had a chance. He does have a chance and that is why we are fired up.

John Mcdowell

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

Shelley Berkley

War is not a word, it's an acronym for "Wasting Another's Resources."

Ramman Kenoun

We're wasting our time by going to meetings, he (Farris) does what he wants and the rest is a charade for the public. We're elected officials. They talk about power to the people, there is no such thing here.

Bobby Whitaker

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Billy Joel

I am tired of wasting my time and money on this child I could be helping children who really need it.

Karen Moyer

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Craig Reid

We've been wasting the river, particularly the sediment, directing it offshore. The Corps of Engineers from the New Orleans District Office dredges more river sediment than any other district in the United States. ... The problem is, we don't put it [sediments] where it's needed. We should pipe it across the landscape, putting it into regions where we can build wetlands.

Robert Twilley

It's a horrible situation. These young men wasting away on a shambles of a ship, while their employers reap the benefits.

Dave Walsh

Even with those advances most manufacturers are not making a great deal of money and customers aren't happy, ... Lean consumption involves solving customers' problems completely, not wasting their time, providing exactly what the customer wants, in a location they prefer and a timeframe they need. And finally it is helping customers reduce efforts to solve their own set of problems.

James Womack

If we continue thinking about them (anti-Senate faction) we would be wasting our time. Let us finish them between now and February and forget about them. We need to focus on getting into power in the next five years.

Welshman Ncube

If they don't, they are wasting a lot of people's time and money. I would always tell them, 'You're doing me a favor and another guy a favor because we can go get him.

Chuck Reedy

We have no reason to believe there is any substance to this. George Bush and his allies in Congress are wasting time and money on meaningless political investigation while Al Gore is out there fighting for working families.

Douglas Hattaway

You're wasting our time.

Chris Daly

If you try to figure out the significance of anything he said, you're wasting your time.

Frank Dunham

The prosecution's blatant discovery abuse unnecessarily extends the hearing, thus wasting this court's time and resources. Sanctions are in order for the willful failure to produce discovery.

Robert Sanger

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

Eric Williams

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

Eva Burrows