Quotes About Scarcity

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

It's just...how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

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.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Love is like money...hard to find easy to lose.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

One must be careful to hold fast to the fact that God makes promises and defers the things promised, and that He tries us with a scarcity of available things in order to instruct us in faith in the promise and in order that this faith may be strengthened and may learn to believe God not only in prosperous times, when things are available, but also in adversity, when things are lacking.

En una sociedad cuyo principal problema de nutrición es la obesidad, se olvida fácilmente lo horrible que puede ser para el organismo humano la falta de comida y de bebida.

What woman would not gladly perform a painful pilgrimage, if so she could but find her Jove, and then fall down and worship him! Alas! the actual Jupiters are very scarce.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

Want, is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem

temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

Dar e mereu bine sa stim ce minunate ar parea atatea lucruri din viata noastra daca ar deveni rare.

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game." "What

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game.

There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!