Quotes About Waste

there was only this one life to live; the unpardonable sin was to waste it.

Life was too short, and far too precious, to waste.

I found that when people are nursing a grievance it's a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.

We walk quickly to the footbridge across the railway line. There's a dog waste bin here, and in the heat the slope up to the stairs stinks of shit and wee. Indigo lists the dogs whose markers she can smell. Not what their owners call them, unless there are really three dogs called George H-19, George H-15, George H-26. "All gun dogs are designated George," says Indigo. "The H stands for Heath and the numbers are allocated sequentially.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.

What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility!

He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day one day with another, wastes the privilege of using 100£ each day.

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

Often, a seemingly clear clean beach has a huge amount of hidden litter.

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.

Money is wasted on the rich.

vulturii, ca ni?te curcani domestici, se plimbau tactico?i prin gunoaiele regimentului.

A slice off a cut loaf's never missed, right?

And we are, to the best of our knowledge, the most developed expression of the complexity in our bit of the universe. It would certainly be a major loss if we were to be annihilated. It would be a terrible waste of all that development. But the process would continue. We are, ourselves, expressions of that process. Our bodies are the children of all the suns and other stars that died, before us, making the atoms that we are made of.

Women, with no outlet for their special creativities, endured the long, quiet ruin of their talents. Others watched the slow waste of bright children who could've been more and done more in some other, busier place, but never would know more than the village, the fields, and the river.

Like many toilets in Goa, it was nothing more than a smooth, steep slope behind the squatting keyhole. Waste matter rolled down the slope to a narrow lane. Wild, hairy, black Goan pigs roamed the lanes, eating the waste.

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

Unmanageable waste has turned into a worldwide crisis. No matter how much local authorities do, no matter the level of public cooperation, no matter how much is recycled, the problem continues to grow.