Top 198 Wasteful Quotes & Sayings

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

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

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

In healthcare like in government generally, people are incentivised to engage in wasteful/dangerous signalling to a terrifying degree - not rigorous thinking and not solving problems.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.

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

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Negative energy is wasteful.

Activism is wasteful.

War is such a wasteful activity.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

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

Shipping packages one at a time is not only wasteful and environmentally unsustainable, it isn't cost-effective.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.

No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Planned Parenthood is absolutely wasteful spending.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

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

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.