Quotes About Waste

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." He

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Es una pena perder el tiempo. Siempre creemos tener mucho.

All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us- all who knew her- felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. [...] And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt.

To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

There was a man who killed a buffalo bull to no purpose, only he wanted the blood on his hands.

He shuddered. "What a waste of perfectly good maraschino cherries. Why put them in anything but a Manhattan?

At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.

There's only a yard of stuff in it, worth a pound if that, I went on, horrified by the waste of money. And how many yards of canvas in a Fragonard? And how much do planks of wood cost, or the skin of a darling goat before some clever person turns them into commodes and morocco? Art is more than yards, just as one is more than flesh and bones.

I don't quite know why, but I felt somehow that Linda had been once more deceived in her emotions, that this explorer in the sandy waste had seen only another mirage. The lake was there, the trees were there, the thirsty camels had gone down to have their evening drink; alas, a few steps forward would reveal nothing but dust and desert as before.

The collusion between corporations and the state has been so boorishly defiant that it's almost as if the communities standing in the way of these projects are viewed as little more than overburden - that ugliest of words used by the extractive industries to describe the waste earth that must be removed to access tar sands or mineral deposit.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

Waste and stupidity get you the worst, that's what he said. Use this time and it'll temper you. Now's the hardest test—not letting rage and frustration keep you from thinking. It's the core of whether you can command or not.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.

Quiere decir, malicioso? Sí, soy un poco malicioso –dijo Settembrini–. Lo que lamento es estar condenado a malgastar mi maldad en cosas tan miserables.

He's wasted gallons of paint thinner striking his faithful Zippo, its charred wick, virility giving way to thrift, rationed down to a little stub, the blue flame sparking about the edges in the dark, the many kinds of dark, just to see what's happening with her face. Each new flame, a new face.

Catching a TWA flight to Miami was an uncoordinated boy who planned to slip at night into aquariums and open negotiations with the dolphins, who would succeed man. He was kissing his mother passionately goodbye, using his tongue. I'll write, ma, he kept saying. Write by WASTE, she said, remember. The government will open it if you use the other. The dolphins will be mad. I love you, ma, he said. Love the dolphins, she advised him. Write by WASTE.

You think you'd rather hear about what you call 'life' ... But it's only another illusion. A very clever robot. The more dynamic it seems to you, the more deep and dead, in reality, it grows. Look at the smokestacks, how they proliferate, fanning the wastes of original waste over greater and greater masses of city. Structurally, they are the strongest in compression. A smokestack can survive any explosion - even the shock wave from one of the new cosmic bombs...

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Definitions being what they are, young people who waste their time around the house or on street corners are called "unemployed," while those who waste their time in classrooms are called "students.