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c966c5a A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. time science life inspirational dare value waste Charles Darwin
70873b4 Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. waste values romeo-and-juliet William Shakespeare
e967f32 Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. waste Samuel Beckett
54944c4 American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. rubbish trash cities waste John Steinbeck
35c8f2f Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. thrift waste G.K. Chesterton
e55a066 Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? reproach waste Herman Melville
c4ceedd I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life? grief loss relationship reality past hope delusional delusional-love unreal loner delusion save hunger stalking misery hopeless frustration obsession waste unrequited-love sickness Donna Tartt
05e8540 Small talk... Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip... nothing real, nothing serious, nothing meaningful about it. People were experts at wasting their brief, precious years on earth with small talk. life philosophy small-talk serious meaningful small talk waste Rebecca McNutt
0340061 The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. waste John Steinbeck
7c390c5 It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year has ended and another begun. There is something here that speaks of our essential helplessness and how the greater substance of our lives is bound up with waste and opacity... How can so much time hold so little, how can it be taken from us? Months, weeks, days, hours misplaced - and the most precious time of life, too, when our bodies are at their greatest strength, and open, as they never will be again, to the onslaught of sensation. time past waste Carol Shields
81417b0 This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. pain suffering dark world birthing older starving vain nothing necessary bomb obvious terrible wasted waste torture John Fowles
445a54b Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. recycling society waste Peter F. Hamilton
dd0ed90 My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day. wastefulness electricity energy rich waste Chuck Palahniuk
0a58279 We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue-- ! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, win. We win! politics consumption war-on-terror ignorance waste Bill Maher
f8153b0 ..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived. illusion meal waste Peter S. Beagle
1d8ccbd We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages. christianity stewardship waste Randy Alcorn
bce377a A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life. sleep sleeps sleeping waste Larry McMurtry
d4ed8c1 Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him. metaphor killing death senseless-death skylark waste Kate Atkinson
b16c2d8 ...a great future behind him, already writer future old waste Angela Carter
dd9746a It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. time waste Mitch Albom
5abceff We are wasting time. Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way? time wasted-time wasting-time waste Iain M. Banks
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