Best waste & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.”

Form Speak Language Waste Architecture Resistance Celebrate

Book:Architektur denken

Source: Architektur denken

“Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.”

“Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.”

Thinking Knows Should Enough Facts Form Situation Worry Waste Loud Wasting Time Hubris

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.”

Thinking Art Book Feelings Form Waste Wasting Time

Author:Michael Haneke

“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”

“There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.”

“We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.”

Ifs World Looks Doe Happens Form Worst Waste Adversity Anguish Love And Trust

Author:Robert Runcie

“Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.”

Ifs Earth Form Space Strange Waste Empty Mere Void

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”

Ifs World Said Form Life Is Asks Interesting Known Forever Example Walking Waste Bigger Distance Good Things Details Speed Ask Me Too Short Utopian Crawling

Author:Edward Abbey

“For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.”

Form Sleep Waste Wasting Time

Author:Edith Piaf

“This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Wells May Said Play Form Wise Needed Activity Waste Highest And Love Wasting Time Wise Man Once Said Bonus Human Activity Search For Truth Beauty And Love

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.”

Wells Use Form Process Economy Environment Waste Percent Nuclear Thrown Storage Injection Landfills Nuclear Waste

Author:Paul Hawken

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.”

People Men Mean Country Government Form Wish Economy Policy He Man Bears Cost Waste Men And Women Dollars Spending Favors Practicals Idealism Toil Saving Money Save Me Government Spending

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.”

Form Energy Water Tree Produce Building Waste Climate Stores Release Solar Energy

Author:William McDonough

“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.”

Self Form Community Economic Waste Regard Instinct Western Motive Exception Civilized Strongest Preservation Persistent Self Preservation Propensity Emulation

Author:Thorstein Veblen

“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”

Men Mind Mean Self Form Values Fool Waste Crisis Mere Proof Saving Restraint Savings Saving Money Thrift Extravagance Self Restraint Muddle

Author:Rudyard Kipling

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