Waste Quotes - page 12

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one. (Moon Unit Zappa)
I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most. View quote
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. View quote
Paul Gillmor
There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it. View quote
Paula Radcliffe
When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. View quote
Rick Danko
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. View quote
Rick Renzi
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. View quote
Roger Babson
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. View quote
Russ Carnahan
How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want? View quote
Raul Grijalva
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste. View quote
Srikumar Rao
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. (Stanley Crouch)
President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare. View quote
Stephanie Cutter
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try. View quote
Stephen Malkmus
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time. View quote
Stockard Channing
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. View quote
Sara Paretsky
It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years. View quote
Tom Udall
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. View quote
Tug McGraw
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. View quote
William Lucking
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. View quote
Westbrook Pegler
How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charlie interrupts impatiently, "Pain is where it's at for punks. Mutilation, self-hatred, slam dancing. For these kids today, ugly is beautiful. That's their way of saying what a lousy world we're giving them. No more rain forests. Toxic waste. You know the drill." (John Updike)
"...Nelson'll be thirty-three in a couple of months." He thinks it would be a waste of breath, and maybe offensive, to explain to Mr Shimada that at that same age Jesus Christ was old enough to be crucified and redeem mankind. View quote
John Updike
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
We must give up the idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes. View quote
J. C. Ryle