No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
No act of kindness is wasted.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it
I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?
I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time. " I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.
If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.