Quotes About Scarcity

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

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

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

Turns out, there's not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

The next World War will be over water

I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.

Why bother pinching pennies when the dollars had fled long ago?

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

SYMPTOMS OF THE FEAR OF POVERTY

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

Money is as shy and elusive as the "old time" maiden.