Quotes About Scarcity

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

If the color yellow runs out with what will we make bread?

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven. The

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

Time has become a precious commodity and the ultimate scarcity for millions of Americans. A 1996 Wall Street Journal survey found 40% of Americans saying that lack of time was a bigger problem for them than lack of money."6

La riqueza es algo común y corriente, la sabiduría en cambio rara.

Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it. 

The ability to learn, the means of learning, the tools of learning, are abundant and infinite. It's the desire that's incredibly scarce.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.

If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war.

In a time of dearth, come forth with weight and measure.

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

Coffee, ever since it became impossible to buy it in Germany, has assumed a weird importance in one's life.

97.5% of the world's water is salinated. Of the 2.5% that's fresh, over 99% is trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In total, only .025% of the water on the globe is actually drinkable by humans and animals.

Imagine a gallon jug filled with water with three ice cubes next to it. All of the water in the jug is salt water. The ice cubes are the only fresh water, and humans can only drink the drops that are melting off of each.

A Long Tail is just culture unfiltered by economic scarcity.

There was less of him now. There was less of them all. Officers and men dragged themselves around in uniforms three sizes too big, new holes punched into every belt, every collar hanging loose. They were a garrison of skinny boys performing a play about soldiers.

When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.

Often in our emotional, spiritual, and financial economy, the problem is that we adopt a view of scarcity rather than abundance. We fear we will not have enough money, insight, or even love to share with others.

The new government decided the best way to rectify this was to outlaw abortion and prohibit the sale or display of contraceptives in the Weimar constitution of 1919. During a time of unimaginable scarcity and fear, women were forced into motherhood. They were forced to make do, and the pressure to repopulate the nation, to birth and raise a new generation of mothers and soldiers, was enormous. It was the most important thing a woman could possibly do: Be the Good Mother.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.