Quotes about Unused Resources

R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

Mother Jones

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Victor Hugo

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

Ali Mohamed Shein

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

Zal Batmanglij

We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.

Paolo Sorrentino

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

David Morse

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

Carl Icahn

When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.

Samuel Butler

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

John Waters

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Patrick Marber

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Thomas Blennerhasset

Fair England. She has more people than she can well sustain. Goodly Ulster for want of people [has] unmaneured, her pleasant fields and rich grounds, they remain, if not desolate, worse …. Make speed, get thee to Ulster, serve God, be sober.

English owners of Irish Estates did not get along with the Irish natives very well. They were perceived by most Englishmen as uncivilized, primitive barbarians who were not hard workers or industrious people. Further, England had turned Protestant and made Ireland such, and the Roman Catholic Irishment did not want to have much to do with the English who were occupying their land and robbing them of their religion. So the English estate managers sought to induce English to settle in Ireland.

Jerry Lewis

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

William James

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Aldo Leopold

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.