#waste

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#business #creates #film #film business #i

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#angry #away #could #feel #i

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. ↗

— William Greider

#commercial #dollars #global #globalization #interests

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#nuclear #nuclear power #plant #power #power plant

It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#better #get #money #more #than

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#health #like #lose #miser #spendthrift

Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant, too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the wastepaper basket with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#limitation #misanthropy #waste #courage

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#inefficient #taxation #waste #wasting #business

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#dust #fear #shadows #waste-land #death

Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Alive! He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#greed #power #silence #wasteland #dreams