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Quotes About Waste

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time.
~ Scott Adams
People imagine that they can hold their own against the literary production of the world. An illusion. You dig through the centuries, through all the various corners of the universe, and nowhere are you at home. Through this game, judgement and thought lose their edge. It is simply a waste of time and strength.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
~ John Barrymore
The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
~ John Brunner
luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God
~ John Calvin
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
~ John Cheever
Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success
~ John D. Rockefeller
Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
~ John Derbyshire
Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
~ Dexter Scott King
I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
~ Gary Gilmore
One life to live, live it to the fullest. If you have doubts or your gut feeling says something, listen. Don't waste time, time will waist u.
~ Behdad Sami
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
~ Neil Tierney
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
~ Patrick Ness
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for God. Don't waste it.
~ John Piper
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
~ A.W. Tozer
Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.
~ Justin Amash
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
~ George Bernard Shaw
. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death
~ William Butler Yeats
The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.
~ Zoe Helene
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
~ Agnes Repplier
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
~ Charles Robert Maturin
The push for us to throw perfectly good things away and buy new things to replace them so that somebody else can get rich--an idea that goes against our own basic instincts and common sense--still holds us in thrall. We are married to a disposable economy dependent on waste.
~ Edward Humes
We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.
~ Edward Humes
Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.
~ Edward Humes