Quotes About Scarcity

So long had it been since we had eaten civilized provisions that we could not identify it. After much reflection I realized that it was simply bread spread with lard or grease.

How will he get by in the desert without bowls and plates, without coal stoves, without carpets to lie down on with the little ones? Without his toilet, without the view from the window onto the square and the fountains with their crystal-clear water.

There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.

Where waste occurs, want will follow

People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist.

The investment perspective on resource scarcity is conceptually straightforward: We need to price the risks correctly, and we need to look for investment opportunities in companies that provide solutions.

Time was when I could come home from my travels with many pretty old things stowed away among my shirts and socks. But that was long ago, before the German troubled the world, before we fell to turning every penny twice over, before the tax collector claimed the third rasher of bacon on the dish. Also it seems that the pretty old things grow rare as eggs of the great auk and hard to find.

The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven.

I no longer ask, "What do I want to let go of, and what do I want to hang on to?" Instead I ask, "What do I want to let go of, and what do I want to give myself to?" The desire to "hang on" comes from a sense of scarcity and fear. The desire to "give myself" comes from a sense of abundance and generosity. That's the kind of truth I want to wither into.

Dispomos de um excesso de tempo que nos acaba por faltar a partir do momento em que já passou.

Rats were eagerly eaten, and hard cabbage-stalk, with raw potato-peelings, which had been thrown into the sewers, was used for food.

At times baking soda and yeast were not to be had. Individuals were issued rations, including flour, to utilize as best they could. Because of lack of equipment, especially when men were on the march, bread-making was sometimes accomplished in the manner described by Timothy Mitchell, writing home to southwest Virginia from Tennessee: "Our flour we make up in an oil cloth, back of a dirty shirt, or towel; roll it 'round a stick and hold it before the fire." [26]

Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days!

It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.

There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse.

Our options are limited. Do we want to be wet tonight or hungry tomorrow?

There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from having an empty purse.

I'm willing to lose some sleep if it comes to that. I can't think of the last time I shared the company of a woman who speaks her mind firmly and without hesitation. Your kind are in short supply these days.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

una vida rota por el exceso y la escasez de este mundo

Although it is so evident when you look at nature that there is incredible abundance, the united ego of mankind in mass hysteria about lack, rushes to destroy the planet in order to get its piece of the pie before it all "runs out.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

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