Quotes About Scarcity

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.

good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.

Seems he'd cornered a very valuable ore called Columbite. Everybody was wanting the stuff. It's got an extraordinarily high melting point. Jet engines can't be made without it. There's very little of it in the world, only a few thousand tons are produced every year, mostly as a by-product of the Nigerian tin mines.

I wouldn't be surprised if in fifty years' time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

In the arid region it is water, not land, which measures production," he

There really aren't too many sock companies.

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

Do you have any idea how rare love is? In a thousand years, I have found it but twice, and when I have, I have honored it.

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage.

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