Quotes About Scarcity

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

His words of thanks contain four of the top six releasers for producing action patterns in someone else: reciprocity, scarcity, validation, and appeal to commitment. He hides the evidence of his begging under another trick gleaned from Chapter 12: If you want a person to help you, convince them that they've already helped you beyond saying. People will work hard to protect their legacy.

Our small, scarcity-based worldview is the real aberration here, and I believe it has largely contributed to the rise of atheism and the "practical atheism" that is the actual operative religion of most Western countries today. The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

Does the Almighty One operate from a scarcity model of love and forgiveness?

wit, like anything else, is rarely found where rarely sought, and that in my experience it was damned uncommon in men as well.

Sabes lo que dice la gente? «Cuarenta y cinco años de comunismo y seguimos sin tener papel higiénico» ¡Somos pobres! El comunismo no funciona.

Los biberones eran un lujo que escaseaba más que las grabadoras. —Gracias

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax.

World War II had marked "the supreme triumph of man in his long battle with the scarcities in nature." By

What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Tutto era razionato: zucchero, sapone, olio, e soprattutto il sale in zucca, ché di quello ce n'era davvero poco. Perché quando che hai fame, e questo chissà se tu lo puoi capire da là dove stai, la testa non funziona più come prima, s'incaglia, ché non ti consola nemmeno avercela ancora sul collo, se non te ne fai più niente.

Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare.