Quotes About Scarcity

Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes's in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as "nasty, brutish, and short." They seemed to have to work hard, to be driven by the daily quest for food, often to be close to starvation, to lack such elementary material comforts as soft beds and adequate clothing, and to die young.

The problem with pianos," I began, "is that there aren't enough to go around. Lots of people in the BookWorld play them, they frequently appear in the narrative, and they're often used as plot devices. Yet for an unfathomable reason that no one can fully explain, there are only fifteen to cover the entire BookWorld.

Time, though you've probably lived all your life believing the contrary, is not money. If you run out of money, there are many ways to scrounge up more. If you run out of time—well, that's all she wrote.

Ratings are virtually meaningless with only two spots a week. It

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Ya no hay demasiados seres fantásticos en los que creer. Establecemos nuestro hogar en los escasos bosques que nos quedan. Pronto ya no quedarán ni ésos.

Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came back, and it makes me nostalgic For the years I lived on coffee and bread, Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday Like a woman journeying for water From a village without a well, then living One or two nights like everyone else On roast chicken and red wine.

It was a poor town—the meagerly stocked market was proof of that.

May be God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

science of economics should focus on the best use of scarce means to satisfy social ends.

Is it true that Panrovians have a lot of children . . . because they figure there's another famine coming? -Cerebus

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Sofremos demasiado pelo pouco que nos falta e alegramo-nos pouco pelo muito que temos...

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

People who have rediscovered their capacity to create inner satisfaction are far less likely to get trapped in a mindset of scarcity and more likely to use their innate creativity to expand the pie.

If food is scarce, why isn't Gandhi dead yet?

Lo besaba porque sabía que las oportunidades eran escasas para que tuviera muchos besos como este en su vida.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.