Quotes About Scarcity

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the small islands will be the worst victims.

Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.

A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible." PHOEBE TRAEGER

You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Given that grief remained the most general of afflictions its literature seemed remarkably spare.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Despite the chronic shortages of almost every good and commodity, there was no shortage of paper, since everyone in the neighborhood was required to write confessions on a periodic basis. Even

The greatest crime you can commit in the desert is to find water and remain silent about it.

Competition is only good up to a point. When supply exceeds demand

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.