Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
George Allen

Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.
Michael Todd

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

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

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
Edward Bond

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
Craig Bruce

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Westbrook Pegler

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Henri de Lubac

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
Raul Grijalva

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
Bob Riley