#wasted

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#busy #corner #could #hand #hat

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#becomes #best #effort #efforts #inseparably

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was. ↗

— Keith Richards

#never #probably #thought #wasted

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#never #talk #wasted

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. ↗

— Michelangelo

#harm #than #time #wasted

I have wasted my hours. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#i #wasted

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#time #wasted #wasted time #wasting #you

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#cheap #continue #famine #her #human