Words matter. These are the best Depleted Quotes from famous people such as Harold Pinter, Denis Waitley, Edan Lepucki, John Burroughs, Richard Lamm, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
It’s funny: when I set out to create the world of ‘California,’ I didn’t give the type of apocalypse much thought… I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.
For too long, the world has been focused on short-term growth and development at the expense of our long-term survival as we have depleted our natural resources at historically reckless rates.
You can imagine, if somebody’s approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I’ve given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I’ve given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons – as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
If I don’t do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.
When we don’t get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort – and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.
If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we’re not as resourceful, creative, or effective.
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife is depleted, we might notice the loss, but we are unaware that the baseline by which we judge the decline is in fact a state of extreme depletion.
