Quotes About Scarcity

When you are starved and something is dropped on your plate you are going to relish every bite.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

Life is short and so is money.

jOrdnung ist heutzutage meistens dort, wo nichts ist. Es ist eine Mangelerscheinung.

The gene pool ran pretty small on the Arizona Strip.

By 2025, 5 billion people will live in countries with inadequate water supplies. • Within 50 years all the world's great reefs may have been wiped out by higher sea temperatures.

Here's the Stanford University researcher Rosamond Naylor, who conducted some of the most recent calculations: "I think what startled me the most is that when we looked at our historic examples there were ways to address the problem within a given year. People could always turn somewhere else to find food. But in the future there's not going to be any place to turn."61 It doesn't get any more basic than that.

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.

First, freedom from fear is a privilege that even the few have enjoyed in only relatively short periods of history, but freedom from want has been the great privilege that has distinguished a very small percentage of mankind throughout the centuries.

Good things are rare. They are to be cherished because they always leave us too soon.

The good men, the ones who wanted to commit and raise children, were scooped up early. The field became thinner and thinner as the years went by.

Algerians cannot offer what they do not have themselves. Many homes have running water for just an hour a day. In the cities and towns there are hotels, even resorts, and in the southern Sahara, where the rock art is second to none, organised tours are available.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.

We are living in the era where kings and queens are few.