Wasteful People Quotes

#1. I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing.

Hans Scholl

#2. You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life! People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Seneca.

#3. Diversity, not uniformity, is what works. Our problem is not that people are living a bad way but rather that they're all living the same way. The earth can accommodate many people living in a voraciously wasteful and pollutive way, it just can't accommodate all of us living that way.

Daniel Quinn

#4. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

#5. Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

John Steinbeck

#6. Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

Dave Mustaine

#7. Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

#8. Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

Felix Dennis

#9. God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Walter Lang

#10. People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who thought all of mankind's problems could be solved by throwing the taxpayers' dollars at them.

Ronald Reagan

#11. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

#12. A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

Martha Stewart

#13. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!

Lisa Kleypas

#14. Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Joy Bryant

#15. I do believe that God's word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.

John Shimkus

#16. There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

Chinua Achebe

#17. Glurk hit the guard in as friendly a way as possible.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

Wendell Berry

#19. There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

Charles Vest

#20. Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment.

George W. Romney

#21. The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Herbert Hoover

#22. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.

Archibald Marwizi

#23. People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Hill Harper

#24. Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.

Walter Block

#25. We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

Shane Claiborne

#26. Begin, then, where you are, not where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story - if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell

Florence Falk