Wasteful Quotes

99 Wasteful quotes by 90 unique authors

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and… — Norman Mailer
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. — George McGovern
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now… — Steven Morrissey
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale. — Ingrid Newkirk
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be. — Steven Pinker
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates… — Martha Stewart
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. — Julian Baggini
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is… — Felix Dennis
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful. — Bill Watterson
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a… — George Bernard Shaw
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth.… — Jean Vanier
You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could… — Lisa Kleypas
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions.… — Truman Capote
Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful. — Rachel Caine
I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians… — Peter Singer
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is… — Walter Block
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless,… — David Geffen
A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one… — Peter Blair Henry
Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling… — George W. Romney
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. — Tony Campolo

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