Quotes about Waste
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
- Ronald Reagan
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
- Anonymous
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
- Anonymous
[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.
- Anonymous
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
- Anonymous
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove
- Samuel Johnson
luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God
- John Calvin
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
- Edith Wharton
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- William Wordsworth
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.
- Hill Harper