Waste Quotes - Page 31

• Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

  John Banville

  Dog, Team, Frozen

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• Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Wasting Time

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• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

  "Greening the ghetto". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

  George Washington

  Care, Should, Farmers

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• Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

  Margaret Carlson

  Running, Iraq, Puppy

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
  The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Beach, Religious

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• It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

  Graham Linehan

  Reality, Energy, Movement

  "The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• What we can do as landscape architects is look at how we can use materials to the best
  advantage, and our resources like water. Water is so precious that we can't waste it, we have to
  use it in small amounts, and we have to use it effectively.

  Pamela Palmer

  Water, Looks, Use

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, Government, Land

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• Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of  'destruction' and 'waste'.  Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.  Then  economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of  goods

  Petr Skrabanek

  Tuberculosis, Disease, Sound

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• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.34, Random House

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

  Euripides

  Husband, Grieving, Lost

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• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Sorrow, Vines

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

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• There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

  Mark Twain

  Encouragement, Stress, Issues

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  Dan Quayle

  Intelligence, Mind, Lawyer

  Dan Quayle (1995). “Standing Firm: A Vice-presidential Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

  Tom Szaky

  Men, Ideas, Garbage

  Tom Szaky (2013). “Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste”, p.70, Penguin

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• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

  Tim Minchin

  Inspirational, Dream, Persons

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• So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

  Joan Blos

  Motivational, Want, Scared

  Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.

  James Hutton

  Mean, Science, Land

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• The more the marble wastes,
  The more the statue grows.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Sculpture, Grows

  "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.

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• If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Technology, Men, Use

  "Economics As a Science". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1970.

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• Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

  Roger Schank

  Terrible, Interest, Security

  Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer (2013). “Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Work, Trying, Merit

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

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