Quotes About Waste

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!

In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not love, respect or agree with. Remember that the seed of love in you is within your every act of kindness, a seed that will grow in the heart of the recipient.

Esto es el mundo al revés, amigo. En cambio de dárselo a la gente lo tirán acá al basural, para que no les bajen los precios. Si serán hijos de puta.

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

And the new people just did not appreciate the importance of recycling,

There is a legend that everything wasted on the earth is stored and treasured on the moon: unfulfilled dreams, broken vows, unanswered prayers, wasted time

regrets were a waste of time.

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

For 7 pounds of food waste per week, I would start with 2 to 3 pounds (0.9 kg to 1.4 kg) of worms in a 6-cubic-foot worm bin.

We have all heard of the bottom line, but have you heard of the triple bottom line? Abbreviated 3BL, it's also known as the three pillars or the three Ps: profit, people, and the planet. More companies are adopting the Zero Waste Business Principles developed by ZWIA, principles that encourage looking at resources in new ways.

these polluters shall have the sole right to decide what: kind of shit, poison, toxic or hazardous waste they will dump on us. If, at some later date, the tribe should adopt stricter standards for waste disposal, then we must compensate those bastards for the costs arising from the new rules.

one dollar for every ton of waste.

The waste disposal firm will send us the crap and filth from Minneapolis, Denver, and other big cities and will bless us with an Everest of garbage on five thousand acres of our most beautiful land situated near some of our most sacred places and not far from Wounded Knee.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldnt be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.