Consumptiveness Quotes

#1. But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.

Wendell Berry

#2. God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Francis Chan

#3. Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

Steve Carell

#4. the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once.

Gary Snyder

#5. You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve

Elon Musk

#6. Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum ...

Rick Riordan

#7. She chokes on her drink with her laugh. "Chunk? You call your little sister Chunk?" "We all call her Chunk. She was a fat baby." She laughs. "You have nicknames for everyone," she says. "You call Sky Cheese Tits. You call Holder Hopeless. What do you call me when I'm not around?

Colleen Hoover