Quotes About Waste

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Peter bent and examined the pile. Only country people, thought Beauvoir, were endlessly fascinated by shit. Country people and parents.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

You know, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears of a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

En mis muchos años, he llegado a la conclusión que un hombre inútil es una lástima, dos son una firma legal, y tres o más son un congreso

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Why do I waste my time? Why is it that you're so damn irreplaceable?

Friendship is like a song, some may be a hit and last forever and some maybe be a waste of time and never to be heard of again.

Every minute I spend away from you is a minute I waste.

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

I bought a pack of gum...I don't need a 3ft receipt.

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.

Sophie got out the modish black-and-white, which was the only hat even remotely likely to interest this lady. The lady looked at it with contempt. "This one doesn't do anything for anybody. You're wasting my time, Miss Hatter." "Only because you came in and asked for hats," Sophie said.

You people keep spoiling my plans. First Wizard Suliman would not come near the Waste, so that I had to threaten Princess Valeria in order to make the King order him out here. Then, when he came, he grew trees.

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

it seemed an awful waste that we weren't in love with each other.