#wasteful

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

— Chaka Fattah

#majority #now #republicans #someone #spending

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

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

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

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

— Dan Quayle

#how #lose #mind #true #very

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#achieving #businessmen #competition #efficient #free

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

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. ↗

— George McGovern

#come #deception #high #high places #home

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? ↗

— Laura Miller

#city #city hall #cuts #forces #hall