#wasted

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#branches #cracking #existence #me #sterile

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#constant #fool #labor #life #man

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#i #internet #me #opened #says

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed. ↗

— David Ricardo

#before #circulating #could #lost #manner

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#time #wasted #wasted time #wasting #you

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

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. ↗

— George Saunders

#i #lot #novel #now #paragraph