Quotes About Waste

Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

Yes, I know you consider it a waste of time under the circumstances, but we have time to waste.

The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Prayer without heart is a waste to time.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes.

Glances Two people meet. The sky turns winter, quells whatever they would say. Then, a periphery glance into danger - and an avalanche already on its way. They have been honest all their lives; careful, calm, never in haste; they didn't know what it is to meet. Now they have met: the world is waste. They find they are riding an avalanche feeling at rest, all danger gone. The present looks out of their eyes; they stand calm and still on a speeding stone.

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.

The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known; But at the coming of the milder day, These monuments shall all be overgrown.

When it comes to persecuting people for pot, there's a long list of horror stories. The thing that gets me is, why? Why waste precious law enforcement resources on bullshit? I

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

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

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

The easiest way to reduce this waste problem is not to generate heat; in other words, keep still and don't work. Hence such social adaptations as the siesta, which is designed to keep people inactive in the heat of midday. In British India, the saying had it, only mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the noonday sun. The natives knew better.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.