Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Bob Riley

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Anna Garlin Spencer

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Cleo Moore

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas Sowell

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
Rick Renzi

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
David R. Brower

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Alfred Hitchcock

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur H. Sulzberger

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Alvin Lee

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
Fred Thompson

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau