“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.” FirstsBelieveKindTwoDoneChoicesI BelieveResultsEconomyCuttingAchieveTypeTaxesWasteWeaknessEconomicsIncreaseInvestmentDebtPracticalsBudgetsTemporaryTransitionTaxationRevenueDeficitInadequateBoostInertiaTax CutsSurplusUnwanted Author:John F. Kennedy
“Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.” WayFeelsCountryDoneChoicesGivenPartyPoliticianExerciseWasteMy TimeVotingMeaninglessFreedom Of ChoiceWasting My Time Author:George Carlin
“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?” IfsWorldChoicesFeltMankindWasteResourcesSubstanceExhaustedFiniteConsumingProspectsMultiplyingYeastBrewersVat Author:Farley Mowat
“If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.” IfsLongChoicesDealsAliveWasteCookingClimateClimate ChangeCooksWasting Money Author:George Soros
“I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'” ThinkingIdeasChoicesDecisionWifeCitizensWasteDaughterRaisedNotionActressesGoatsMaking DecisionsGood CitizenJust Be HappyGood WifePreconceived NotionsPreconceived IdeasCobblers Author:Sandra Bullock
“I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.” IfsLooksMadeWould BeEyeValuesChoicesFoundAirBloodFineDrinkWasteExpectationsResponseLipsDinnerHis EyesSpiteScentUnitsAmusedContainersCoolingLasagnaTwitching Book:Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory” UseProblemChoicesEnergyWishGrowthBehindsVisionStepsMaterialsHugeDevelopmentFutureWasteModelsResourcesIndiaRemainsWesternChinaEnormousToxicSustainable DevelopmentEmulateTrajectory Author:Sunita Narain
“Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.” IfsThinkingFeelsWarMatterProblemChoicesIndividualGivenAnswersOpinionIssuesHavensTomorrowWasteWasting TimeBlairReferendums Author:Damon Albarn