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What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hope that no American will waste his franchise
and throw away his vote
by voting either for me or against me solely
on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
- John F. Kennedy
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well.
They must have worked for it.
I only feel angry when I see waste.
When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
- Mother Teresa
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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