Quotes About Scarcity

Water, water, water.… There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, of water to sand, insuring that wide, free, open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here, unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

It was as if he had recognised how few pleasures he had in his life, making him all the more determined to cling on to the few that remained. Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

We know well only what we are deprived of.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

But, putting on a stillsuit, he put on the desert.

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others—it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual. Water.

How careless his people had grown, Paul thought. They were millionaires of water—forgetful of the days when a man on Arrakis could have been killed for just an eighth share of the water in his body.

Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping them with strange scythelike devices—dew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected.

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others - it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual.

Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

Si los nómades se encontraran sin carne, nadie sabe lo que se les ocurriría hacer; por otra parte, quien sabe lo que se les ocurriría hacer comiendo carne todos los días.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.