Quotes About Waste

Water benefits us without taking from us. It cleanses us, nourishes us, and calms our restlessness. So is a mother to her child. From the moment of birth, a child's well-being is her only concern. A wise mother cleans and discards the child's waste without comment. The child's excrement, its tears, its rages, are all allowed to be and discarded without emotion. A wise mother does not judge her child.

Because in a time of financial crisis like the present, money is what ammunition is to a soldier in a hostile country - don't let's waste our powder.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]

The Kalkaska nightscape is dotted with places where the oil companies have punched holes in the sandy soil to get at the petroleum and are burning off excess natural gas in waste flames, which must make the environmentalists just giddy.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

There will be hundreds of sons making the same journey,' he says. 'All of us riding with broken hearts, all of us thinking of vengeance. This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it.

Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

Are you going to the dining hall? Glain smiled very briefly. It was a rare enough event, and it made her almost human. Almost pretty. Are you asking to escort me, like some girl you're romancing? Jess. Don't waste your time. I'm extremely unavailable.... Remind me never to be polite to you again, he said, and she laughed this time, came around, and draped a comrade's arm around his shoulders. Of course I will.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

nothing but a pile of bloody garbage.

Being in your twenties has changed a lot since I was in my twenties, but it is still a time everything awful that happens is awful in a romantic way, even if you don't admit it (and you can't admit it because then you would be less important in the tragedy you're starring in, your own life)...because in your twenties you know, even if you don't admit this either, even if this is buried deep in your subconscious, that you can waste an entire decade and still have a life.

He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years.

He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.

That night I sat in a booth across from Kid Williams, a former boxer. His black hands were lumpy and mutilated. I always had the feeling he might suddenly reach out his hands and strangle me to death. He spoke in two voices. He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years.

Self-destruction of a physically fit person is always a tragic waste of life and hurtful to survivors, but life is a personal responsibility. We must each decide for ourselves.

I canna think why the good Lord should waste hair like that on a man.