Quotes About Waste

But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: What are we going to do with all of this shit?

in 1326, an ill-fated laborer by the name of Richard the Raker fell into a cesspool and literally drowned in human shit.

From the very beginnings of human settlements, figuring out where to put all the excrement has been just as important as figuring out how to build shelter or town squares or marketplaces.

Carbon may be a talented connector, but without a medium that allows it to collide randomly with other elements, those connective powers are likely to go to waste. All

whether cities or bodies—find productive uses for the waste they create.

Can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral? After all, you pointed out that reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife. Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

all the blood that has been wasted—all of it—gathers into deep coherent veins in the earth and calls itself history—& we make it make sense— & we are asked to call it good.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

In the stinking dark forest of splintery posts under the pier lay pizza tins, beer cans, cigarette wrappers, condoms—the joyless detritus of American joy.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

I'm not too keen on Twolegs, but it would be mouse-brained to let their food go to waste when it's right there.

Una cosa che non mi può succedere: perdere tempo a leggere il libro di uno scrittore che non stimo e aggiungere la perdita di tempo di scrivere contro.

How easy it is, to waste a life.

There are times when I feel that the only real aptitude of our species is that we can ruin anything.

Today I noticed a slim bar of soap lodged deep in the throat of the sink. My fingers can't reach that far down the drain. It is leaching away into the water, every day.

that however deep your despair, there is always hope. Life is very precious and beautiful – and no one should waste it.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.