I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.