#wasted

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family. ↗

— Tom Felton

#bought #buy #cars #clothes #could

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. ↗

— Freddy Fender

#affair #days #invested #love #love affair

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#forever #found #ideal #made #much

A day without laughter is a day wasted. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#laughter #wasted #without

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#badly #change #colleagues #defeated #face

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#back #because #been #disappointed #frustrated

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#anxiety #anything #around #came #carrying

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#children #ever #eyes #hovering #never