Quotes About Scarcity

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.

What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished through collaboration and association with others in a collective drive to abolish the barriers of scarcity and material necessity beyond which, Marx held, the true realm of individual freedom could begin.

Adolescent men often live in a world where available women are in scarce supply, because women prefer mature men with position and affluence. Young men's strategies reflect these local conditions of female scarcity, because they engage in highly risky competition strategies, committing the vast majority of violent crimes of sexual coercion, robbery, battery, and murder.

Women of striking beauty are desired by many men, but only a few men prosper in attracting them. The qualities of kindness, intelligence, dependability, athleticism, looks, and economic prospects are all present rarely in the same person.

Because I am both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, 'That was so bad,' is always followed by 'And there was so little of it!

My argument was an old and stodgy one: the best thing you can do for the poor is avoid joining their ranks, thus competing with them for limited goods and services.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

When money's scarce life is a daily emergency, everything is freighted with potential loss, you feel even the smallest misstep will destroy you. When there's money, it's different, even a real emergency never quite touches you, you're always shielded from risk. You are, in some sense, too big to fail.

Land acquisition is a problem in Kerala because the available land is limited.

This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris. People used to fight for bread at the bakers' doors; while other persons went to the grocers' shops and bought Italian paste foods without brawling over it.

It seemed to Rebus that the more expensive something was, the less of it there always seemed to be: tiny little hi-fi systems, watches without numbers, the translucent Dior ankle-socks on Michael's feet.

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

Man has less than he suspects of: time, friends, hopes, qualities. Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams

shovels for digging irrigation ditches could not be located when needed but were found in unusual places

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.