Waste Quotes - Page 17

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

People are here to serve. We cannot waste potential.

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

Time is a waste of money.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.