Quotes About Wastefulness

#1. The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

#2. State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved to reuse many times, not recycled after one purchase.

Christine Gross-Loh

#4. Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Al-Ghazali

#5. Extravagant wastefulness in time might prove the most productive thing you choose for yourself.

Shelly Miller

#6. The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

Peter Robinson

#7. The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

Thorstein Veblen

#8. When you are on a time bound purposeful journey, rest is not just idleness but wastefulness.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. I wrapped up the remaining half burrito and tossed it into the trash can. Molly watched this act of wastefulness with an expression like she had just seen her entire family die in a fire.

David Wong

#10. Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus

#11. Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on?

Richard Dawkins

#12. One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

David Lamb

#13. In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. So

Upton Sinclair

#14. Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.
The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.

Jean Cocteau

#16. We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

Nong Duc Manh

#17. In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Twyla Tharp

#18. I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Theodore Parker

#19. Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.

Joy Bryant

#20. Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position.

Mike Richter

#22. Clearly his inner teenage girl was trying to claw her way to the surface.

Piper Vaughn

#23. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it,

J.D. Robb

#24. God is found by those,
With kind hearts.

Bulleh Shah

#25. She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

John Green

#26. In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Deborah Ellis

#27. Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.

Gia Russell

#29. Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

#30. Shane: so is world war fifteen over out there?
claire:i think so

Rachel Caine

#31. Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning.

Carlos Wallace

#32. Then were the seeds of madness planted.

Christopher Paolini

#33. I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

Becky G

#34. If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Spurgeon

#35. I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

Michael J. Fox

#36. Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

Criss Jami

#37. Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly