Explore Quotes on Waste

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.