Wastefulness Quotes

“Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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, Revolution

“I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective

“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.”
― Enock Maregesi

“My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“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, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be, without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on pointless items nobody wants: no longer tokens of love but angst-ridden solutions to problems. [...] What is the point of entire nation rushing round for six weeks in a bad mood preparing for utterly pointless Taste-of-Others exam which entire nation then fails and gets stuck with hideous unwanted merchandise as fallout? If gifts and cards were completely eradicated, then Christmas as pagan-style twinkly festival to distract from lengthy winter gloom would be lovely. But if government, religious bodies, parents, tradition, etc. insist on Christmas Gift Tax to ruin everything why not make it that everyone must go out and spend £500 on themselves then distribute the items among their relatives and friends to wrap up and give to them instead of this psychic-failure torment?”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Poor people have a strange affinity to wastefulness. But people who have wealth consciousness have an innate and unerring disgust for unprofitability. And so, poor people tend to acquire more poverty, and wealthy people tend to acquire more wealth”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Do not waste....Don't waste the vegetable-washing water, splash it on the grapefruit tree instead....Don't waste anything made of glass or plastic because glass and plastic can be reused ad nauseam....Don't waste...a string for retying, a rubber band for conquering dry noodles or hair, rice bags for dishcloths, fish bones for fertilizer....Anything that comes out of the earth must be returned to the earth...."If everyone uses more than their share, how can the earth support us?"”
― Thanhha Lai

“If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can’t buy time.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

“Don't spend Capital competing with people who are spending Profits.”
― Moffat Machingura

“I had just dropped my waste into the dustbin but you have dropped yourself into the dustbin to know that, get well soon”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When you have been a victim of constant hunger, you learn how to stop wasting food.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.”
― Roberta Pearce, A Bird Without Wings

“Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“A dead end is only the end of your road if you fail to turn around. Too many people needlessly waste time and energy trying to find a way across a dead end street. Stop, turn around, and ask God for directions to get to where you were going in the first place. Recalculate!”
― Katherine J Walden

“One of the frequent attacks on the behavior of the free market is based on the Georgist bugbear of natural resources held off the market for speculative purposes. We have dealt with this alleged problem above. Another, and diametrically opposite, attack is the common one that the free market wastes resources, especially depletable resources. Future generations are allegedly robbed by the greed of the present. Such reasoning would lead to the paradoxical conclusion that noneof the resource be consumed at all. For whenever, at any time, a man consumes a depletable resource (here we use “consumes” in a broader sense to include “uses up” in production), he is leaving less of a stock for himself or his descendants to draw upon. It is a fact of life that wheneverany amount of a depletable resource is used up, less is left for the future, and therefore anysuch consumption could just as well be called “robbery of the future,” if one chooses to define robbery in such unusual terms. Once we grant any amount of use to the depletable resource, we have to discard the robbery-of-the-future argument and accept the individual preferences of the market. There is then no more reason to assume that the market will use the resources too fast than to assume the opposite. The market will tend to use resources at precisely the rate that the consumers desire.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy

“A person whom lives in a deliberate and thoughtful manner can resist passively assimilating society’s deviant values and unwholesome cultural mores, and live in a courageous and generous manner while passionately pursuing a full life that transcends wastefulness, miserly accumulation, and exploitation of other people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We are busy feeding the dead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“In today’s world, there are a lot of smartphones, mainly owned by not-so-smart people.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Living the La Vida Loca lifestyle without a source of income is foolish.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts