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

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil Armstrong

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
Bill Budge

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
Martha Stewart

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
Berke Breathed

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Dean Kamen

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.
Jeanne Moreau

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.
Martin Yan

I don't think we have any time to waste.
Henry Cisneros

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
Britney Spears

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
Mos Def

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
Cindy Crawford

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