To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...no one touched the food- the power and wealth lying in letting it go to waste.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Striving for perfection is wasteful if excellence is good enough.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn. — Richard M Nixon Copy Share Image
“When you have been a victim of constant hunger, you learn how to stop wasting food.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced,… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans. — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
“It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful—to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure.” — Cameron Stracher Copy Share Image
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I guess the revival of vinyl records is not helping the environmental problem. Although, in some ways, people don't throw records away… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
To transfer food into a bowl from a pan that you've just cooked in, it's a loss of energy; it's wasteful. People… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
“I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was hoarding for… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder:… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
