Quotes About Waste

Meetings were for wasting time, created by and for high-tone people to justify their existence.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it's a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by museums, the baths by oceans, bars by composition, and the dreaming chair by books finished. Nothing is waste that makes a memory.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Probably one of those who ostentatiously carried plastic bags but never stooped to using one.

It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking - lit - seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair. They turn my insides black with soot and ash. There is something at the back of my eyes - a pressure building, building, building - hot like the flames of seven candles, which no amount of breath can extinguish.

It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking - lit - seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair. They turn my insides black with soot and ash.

If his ethos had inspired those in charge of cutting government waste, we'd be turning a surplus in a finger snap.

What a waste and fuss for a bit of water and a few words.

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.

This [waxed paper] is the paper that is perfect for keeping air-dried hams fresh. You could use cling film but it often causes the ham to sweat, and is rather wasteful. I have also reached the age where I can no longer find the end of the roll. Ditto sellotape. Ditto bloody everything.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Ölüm de?ilse bizi ay?ran, yaz?k olmu?.

These were stupid affairs—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were actually fought because inadequate leaders did not know what else to do.

God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

We have a pearl disposal problem down here, you see. After all, if you think about it, they're just oyster poop.

Where waste occurs, want will follow

After a little time they all began to smoke, the Pearl included, though she threw away much more of her cigar than she consumed

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

We throw ourselves away a little each day.

There's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with an instruction packet on the top.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others lives for it.