Waste Quotes

Have the courage to go against the tide of this culture of efficiency, this culture of waste. Encountering and welcoming everyone, [building] solidarity-a word that is being hidden by this culture, as if it were a bad word-solidarity and fraternity: these are what make our society truly human.

It is an attempt to legitimize the present model of distribution, where a minority believes that it has the right to consume in a way which can never be universalized, since the planet could not even contain the waste products of such consumption.

To further combat inflation, we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but will be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars. And to that end, I have created the brand-new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE. Perhaps you've heard of it. Perhaps.

It has been my observation that people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

There's no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.