We are a richly blessed nation; let's not squander that - one of the worst things we can do is not gratefully acknowledge our abundances.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in my life, but if I did win, it would be the usual things - helping out the people I love. I'd probably squander a few quid on all sorts of unnecessary crap!

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.