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Waste Quotes - Page 28

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

"Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.191, Macmillan

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

A waste land lit by holy candles.

Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1942-54”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.272

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.119

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.254

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider, Maurice Harmon (1998). “No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider”, p.14, Harvard University Press