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Quotes About Waste

Thousands of bushels of grain would ferment and rot at one station; hundreds of barrels of meat stacked at another, while the army starved because [of] 'no transportation!
~ Unknown
I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.
~ Patricia Hampl
Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
~ Patrick Carman
waste our lives moving in a circle, in the most constricted space. We sacrifice all freedom.
~ Unknown
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
~ Patrick Ness
What have I done? The adulation of my peers below has been a waste of hours. Could I recall the moments I have carelessly cast away, I could but hope to spend them in a wiser way, and warm myself in light that rivals light of day.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Much time and money is wasted by salespeople trying to sell the wrong people the wrong solutions to the wrong problems.
~ Unknown
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~ Paul Hawken
garbage bag. They fly endless circles over the
~ Paul Levine
O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed!
~ Paul Valery
The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.
~ Paula Wall
I love all waste and solitary places; where we taste the pleasure of believing what we see. Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everything becomes rubbish in the end. We sometimes wonder if people weren't invented as an extra-quick way of making rubbish.
~ Unknown
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
~ Peter Drucker
My sympathies.' 'Don't waste your breath. You can't help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don't listen to official advice, they can't expect government to bend over backwards to help them.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
~ Peter Hedges
T]he song of the Sufis, once it starts, never ends. There is a traditional saying that you should never waste your time trying to find real Sufis because they are the ones who will find you. And this turned out to be perfectly true.
~ Unknown
And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
~ Leviticus 26:32
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
~ Leviticus 26:33
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
~ Deuteronomy 28:39
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
~ Deuteronomy 29:23
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
~ 2 Kings 19:17
“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,
~ Isaiah 17:4