Waste Quotes - Page 16

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

No time is wasted time

Don't waste your time on life.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff - what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model - the economy as it is will kill the planet.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.