Waste Quotes
2808 Waste quotes by 1828 unique authors
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From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the…
— George McGovern
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.
— Lamar Hunt
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Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.
— Stuart Wilde
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When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you…
— Ellen MacArthur
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Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why…
— Hilary Benn
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Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we…
— Phil Harding
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From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also…
— Michael Palin
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If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves…
— Mark Twain
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The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of…
— Stuart Ewen
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The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said…
— Richard M. Weaver
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
— Wendell Berry
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I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that…
— John D. Voelker
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I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
— Brad Pitt
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Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the…
— Carl Froch
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It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
— Joseph Campbell
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Getting lost is not a waste of time,
— Jack Johnson
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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
— Franz Kafka
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If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must…
— Helen Keller
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
— Oscar Wilde
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Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful.
— Harold Arlen
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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Who Wrote These Waste Quotes
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