Quotes About Scarcity

There is always grief. It is joy that is the rarest thing

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

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

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Hope is a very thin diet.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.

Norway is a small environment. There are only three to four agents to deal with, just 15 other clubs, and that's it!

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Što više želiš, to manje dobivaš, a što manje dobivaš, sve više imaš.

the rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.