Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Henry Ford

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

Andy Warhol

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Thomas Sowell

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

T. E. Lawrence

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Robert Kerr

Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Tom Daschle

It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Jim Talent

I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think it?s essential that it be an option.

Winston Churchill

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?

Art Larson

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Ken McBride

He wanted to cover more ground and make more cases. He was a man of action.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.