Quotes About Waste

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

I gave you life. You're wasting it.

Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time...

Tomorrow is promissed to no one. We can not waste today.

if you don´t wanna teach don´t waste time learning

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

You are asking for an extra hour after you have wasted a day.

Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes.

If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time.

I hate flowers to death. What are they for? You cannot eat them. They die in a day. They are a complete waste of money.

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.