Quotes About Waste

You preach to me constantly the gospel of 'saving' and 'abstinence'. Good! I will, like a sensible saving owner, husband my sole wealth, labour-power, and abstain from all foolish waste of it.

surgeons had been able to keep a heart beating even though it wasn't connected to a body. I thought this was a waste of heartbeats and energy. It's like going out and leaving the TV on. We're constantly being told to save energy, and yet surgeons are leaving hearts pumping.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

If you're wasting time, you're wasting money... and that's just sick.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don't waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.