Quotes About Scarcity

His followers are scarcer than Jews in the Vatican.

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

Want, the mistress of invention.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

As poor as a church mouse.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

?udno je kako je malo potrebno da budemo sre?ni a još ?udnije kako ?esto baš to malo nedostaje

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.

A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.

Vergnügen ist Mangelware, aber an Schmerz ist heute überall ranzukommen.

Humans require two things to properly bond: scarcity and the unknown. If loved ones were around forever, you'd take them for granted, and if you knew for sure that you'd be reunited, you'd never miss them. It's all part of the divine plan.

O amor era como a vida, imaginou. Por mais que se fosse abençoado, quando acabava, sabia sempre pouco.

Everything belongs to me because I am poor.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.