Quotes About Scarcity

In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.

Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation.

Because we always lack more than we have, and because there are always more people who don't invite us than who do.

Kindness is scarce in the world

I have so very much. I have so very little.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

FEAR OF DEATH LEADS TO two kinds of fears as it transforms all living creatures either into predator or prey. The fear of scarcity haunts the predator as it hunts for food; the fear of predation haunts the prey as it avoids being hunted. Nature has no favourites. Both the lion and the deer have to run in order to survive.

There is a popular saying, "More rare than pine is the smell of pining"—which is rare indeed, for there are few pine trees in this part of the Ozarks.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

To bring our human population in line with the biocapacity of the planet and transform our society from scarcity to sustainable abundance, we will need to address the great disparity in ecological footprint between the rich and poor, while simultaneously lowering the overall human population on Earth.

They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make anything—was long gone, or at least so expensive it might as well not exist. She wanted

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

The last free place in America is a parking spot.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are scarce.

Happiness in an intelligent person is the rarest thing I know.

Les morts sont plus nombreux que les vivants. Leur nombre augemente. Les vivants sont rares.

No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for a smoke. He hasn't even got the makings. He's got only the habit.

But … why me?" I said. It was the first of the million questions in my mind to come tumbling out of my mouth. "Because there are no more men here," said Magdala. "No fighting men," Tauratanio said. "No fighting men of brave heart and right belief," added Magdala.

This compound should be available from most good drugstores." I got increasingly annoyed with this phrase because in the world I lived in, even ordinary soap was available only intermittently............In an economy that operated by central planning, shortages of just about everything were commonplace." the author dexcribing life in Hungary in the 1950s under Communist Russian rule.

Se han vuelto idiotas por completo, en las aldeas hay más putas que patatas y el tío quiere una inhumana.

I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Knowledge itself was a secret treasure made all the more precious because most women did not possess it.

Do you understand about water in the West? Whiskey's for drinking; water's for fightin' over.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.