Quotes About Scarcity

We want to possess what they're not making any more, what not many others can get and what will distinguish us from others.

Do you know how few men there are worth having?

there is one situation worse than too much information: not enough of it. When hard news is scarce, rumors arise everywhere. Rumors don't have to be true, they just have to be spread. And these days the Internet is the channel for their communication.

It is a piece of luck to have relations scarce.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.

An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water.

But back then, she'd tended to focus first on their appearance, and she could remember saying no to a few guys who hadn't been quite cute enough. And maybe that had been the problem. Maybe she'd turned down Mr. Right because he hadn't been tall enough or whatever, and now -- because he was Mr. Right -- he was already off the market. These days, it seemed like Mr. Rights tended to fly off the shelves perhaps because they were as rare as California condos

Love is in short supply Like leaves on a winter vine Whether it's right or whether it's wrong I'll pay the price for mine

When you've had less than little in some things, you're grateful for even a spoonful of more.

Grain prices in France, for example, where the supply of coin was relatively scarce, were over seven times higher in 1600 than in 1500.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

Artificial over stimulations seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...