Pastoral Resources

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.