Quotes About Depletion

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

interventionism depletes mental and economic resources; it is rarely available when it is needed the most.

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.

be a certain percentage of citizens who will try to strip-mine and suck dry everything they can

Loggers move on after they destroy a forest.

Little by little - no, a lot by a lot - they all took from her. No one gave her anything. Mitsuko became a hollow shell.

Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.

May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

An unknown author said, "Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use." Trust is something that takes time to build, can be lost in seconds, and may be our most important and most difficult objective in managing our relationships.

But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.

The hunter handles his world with such care that he leaves no trail behind him. to leave a trail would be to become hunted by something more powerful than himself. The art of the hunter lies in his ability to choose both the timing and the location of his appearance. By doing this his interaction with the world becomes calculated and frugal, and thus the hunter avoids depleting both himself and the world around him.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want.

Second Law states, among other things, that the universe is running out of usable energy.

Men's supply of passion, she knew from long experience, was easily depleted. Though they might threaten to move earth and heaven too, half an hour later their boasts would be damp sheets and resentment.

A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well.

The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.