Quotes About Scarcity

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Paj?k zje?d?a na niewidocznej nici spod sufitu. Schud? biedak, zmizernia?, bo much coraz mniej. Wspó??yje tak ze mn? od wiosny. U?atwi?em mu swego czasu polowania. Zaprzyja?nili?my si? z konieczno?ci. On czemu? nie ma kolegów, a moi wyekspirowali.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins. It is the smell of War.

What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?

Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.

The expenditure of paper and printer ink had been somewhat lavish. Two generations from now, if any humans survived, they would look on this heap of documents with some combination of disgust and amazement. Because paper was going to be scarce by then, and they would view its use for such purposes in roughly the same way as Americans of the twenty-first century had viewed the use of sperm whale oil to fuel streetlamps.

To paraphrase Tolstoy, all rich places were alike, but each poor place was poor in its own way.

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed.

Sara looked at the well-kept houses along the road. "These Communist pigs have beach clubs, good food, and access to foreign goods that the Cuban people can only dream about.

fight over scarce resources (food and fertile women)

Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in the United States and many states in Europe during a new age of mounting scarcity, declining wages, joblessness, government-imposed "austerity" measures, and assaults on civil liberties. The rising living standards experienced by the American working class in the 1950s have been in precipitous decline since the 1970s.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

city becomes one long line. Everything is disappearing, especially politeness. Rations are consistently being cut, and often there is no food to be had, even with a ration card. Vera, like everyone else, is tired and hungry and afraid.

She used to think that success was like gold, worth sifting through mud for, and that love would always be there, waiting somehow on the riverbanks for her when she was done panning. She couldn't imagine now why she'd thought that, given her background. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

was what it was like to love someone deeply: to feel that no matter how many moments together you were granted, there would never be enough.

MIT economist David Autor has written, "but a serious challenge in determining who owns it and how to share it. Our chief economic problem will be one of distribution, not scarcity.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

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.