Quotes About Scarcity

The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

Water may become increasingly scarce and precious...; that's why I drink beer!

There's bound to be a job for a good cook somewhere. There aren't that many of us about, you know,' she informed them seriously.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Oh ingratos mortales! ¡Jamás conocéis vuestros bienes, sino cuando de ellos carecéis!

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

Guided by the comparison of prices, private enterprise distributes food all over the world, always beginning at the point of greatest scarcity, that is, where the need is felt the most.

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

Il Summit della Terra tenutosi a Johannesburg nel 2002 ha stimato che nel 2050 circa il 40% della popolazione mondiale avrà difficoltà a reperire risorse idriche adeguate.

Money is tight these days, and with the current budget, you have to have a bullet for a head to get so much as a dime.

exiguous resources.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

He didn't forget his lunch, he didn't have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day. He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.

Kindness was one of the things presently (or permanently) in short supply in the world.

We only really need one of a good thing

Age of rationing ended some time ago and is now space rather than possessions which is in short supply.

This is why mysteries are the best kind of stories: because you only get the truth at the very end, when you're absolutely desperate, and that way of arranging things makes you realize how scarce truth is, in stories and in life, and that it's really all that matters.

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

Everything that is great is as rare to find as it is difficult to do.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

We eat breads, and we eat it with butter.While some brothers, starve for water and leave near the gutter.

Acho que as pessoas querem ler sobre as coisas que mais desejam e que experimentam menos.

Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, menos tenía.