Quotes about Waste

God, God . . . He's just a good accountant with an eye on the debit as well as the credit column. There has to be a balance. One life is wasted, another is born . . .

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,