#wasteful

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

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#business #continue #enormous #excessive #family

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

— Jeff Miller

#doing #everything #i #reduce #republicans

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. ↗

— Alton Brown

#wasteful #wrong

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#clumsy #cruel #devil #horribly #low

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#democrats #going #i #spending #stop

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#feel #i #i think #passing #really

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get