- Nov 07, 2020
Waste Quotes
Lines on wasted resources, food, and using what we have wisely.
These lines take on waste from several directions: a currency losing value if not put to productive use, food redistribution as a practical fix for surplus, and a reminder that traditional, nutritious parts of an ingredient too often get discarded. Compare with Food for more on making the most of what's available.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cleaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration's zeal to not 'waste a good crisis,' as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
- Irreplaceable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020