Waste Quotes - Page 37

• The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

  Garrett Hardin

  Men, Cost, Share

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  Lee Iacocca

  Hate, Style, Matter

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.9, Bantam

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• If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Cost, Rich

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• Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

  Bob Newhart

  Silly, Being Silly, Don't Waste Your Time

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

  Donald Knuth

  Kitchen, Important, Needs

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• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doctors, Long, Wasting Time

  “Jonathan Safran Foer” by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

  Jay McInerney

  Lying, Therapists, Knows

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• The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Years, Healthy

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• I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Want, Territory, Wasting Time

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• Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Men, Triumph, World

  Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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• English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Law, Effort, Acquisition

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.255, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

  Mark Steyn

  People, Rich, Welfare

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.282, Regnery Publishing

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Opportunity, Should, Precious Gifts

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• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone...but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends...As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?

  Leon Croizat

  Art, Latin, Science

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Summer, Pain, Rain

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• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Waiting, Wasting Time, Made

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• Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Time, Night, Thinking

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

  Chandra Wilson

  Kids, Frustrated, Wish

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

  Rick Bass

  Would Be, Want, Pursue

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• When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

  Demian Bichir

  Character, Trying, Littles

  "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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