Quotes About Scarcity

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water.

There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

It was the only time before or since when Americans became emotionally invested in the idea of self-deprivation and frugality. Third graders roamed their neighborhoods in packs, gathering scrap materials, tires, and paper and cooking fat and old sneakers whose soles could be sacrificed for the rubber. The Big Three automakers stopped making cars and started making planes. Factory workers took secrecy oaths. Everybody had a secret now.

The scarcity of such face time in remote working situations makes it seem that much more valuable. And as a result, something interesting happens: people don't waste the time. An awareness of scarcity makes them use it wisely.

Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that. Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make

Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough.