Quotes About Scarcity

Full bellies breed gentle manners. A pinch of famine makes monsters.(Bringing up the bodies,pg 36)

We're incandescent and it doesn't seem fair." "Fair?" "I mean too much comes to some of us, not enought to all the rest of us. So few of us to do the thinking. I mean so few of us have to be so incandescent.

Nothing is sweeter, but that which is scarce.

If it's nice, perhaps the smith will make you a cup that never runs out of wine." Carden gives me a look up through his lashes that I find hard to interpret and rises, too. He takes my hand. "Nothing is sweeter," he says, kissing the back of it, "but that which is scarce.

adore à genoux quand on n'a pas pu l'enterrer sous la boue. La corruption est en force, le talent est rare. Ainsi, la corrup- tion est l'arme de la médiocrité qui abonde, et vous en sentirez partout la pointe.

Corruption is thick on the ground, talent rare.

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 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.

Flow mo rare than finding black sand.

Things that you can't go buy another one, that's what you gotta save.

Time itself made all things rare.

Se parece a mucha gente que siempre ha estado mal de dinero. Piensan que hay dos clases de personas, la gente como ellos y luego los demás, que son increíblemente ricos. Un poco de dinero es lo mismo que una cantidad infinita de dinero.

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.

and, as there wasn't enough breakfast to go round, she set out hungry on the long walk to the docks.

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.

grabbing for the last loaf of bread or gallon of milk or four-pack of toilet paper, as if everyone's snow-day plans included French toast and diarrhea.

If their mother complained that he hadn't brought back enough, he'd say, Better to eat a small piece of fish with flavor than a large one without. He'd witnessed a famine of devastating proportions, never taking a single meal for granted.

Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare.

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

How are men and parking spots alike? The good ones are always taken. Free ones are mostly handicapped or extremely small.

Thoughts of lack and scarcity breed feelings of aggressiveness, selfishness, worry, and jealousy. Its effects are negative. Thoughts of abundance breed feelings of kindness, love, prosperity, and generosity. Its effects are positive. Which thoughts you choose to focus on is entirely up to you.