Wasteful Quotes

What a waste it is to lose one`s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

For people who look closely at energy, the idea of New York being a callous and wasteful place is long dead and buried. When it comes to following up on new ideas and new technologies and staying ahead of the curve in terms of being smart and economical, New York is clearly among the leaders in the country.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

And when I look around America today I feel we`re oversaturated with goods. Like most of western Christian civilization, we feel it`s fine if we`re comfortable and, if the rest of the world isn`t, then that`s their problem. We`re not generous. And the idea of paying some chief executive $40 million a year is just obscene. I don`t deny it`s nice to have silk sheets or whatever, but we live in a deeply unequal society and our luxury is both excessive and wasteful.

It`s wasteful to have a train pass just ticking away.

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America`s most wasteful activity.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

He`s making noise about the budget because it`s big, ... If you equate the words `big` and `wasteful,` then he`s right. But big doesn`t mean wasteful, necessarily. The questions I would ask is, Do you have enough money coming in to meet the needs of the budget you`re drawing up? The answer to that is, Clearly yes, we do. As long as we can meet legitimate needs, keep soundly in the black, and not raise taxes, that`s what we need to do.