Quotes About Scarce

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I like to say time is a luxury.

Now, paper and pencils, said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman.

A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land.

Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life?

Two if's scarce make one possibility.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least near villages. (In fact, it's safe to say that meat consumption has fluctuated greatly throughout history and throughout the world, and that, with very few exceptions, until recently it was mostly eaten occasionally.)

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

he was a good person, and good people were rare

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

We usually think of suppliers as other firms, but labor must be recognized as a supplier as well, and one that exerts great power in many industries. There is substantial empirical evidence that scarce, highly skilled employees and/or tightly unionized labor can bargain away a significant fraction of potential profits in an industry.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

And loyalty is such a rare commodity when riches are involved.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

that a corporate strategy represents a plan to effectively allocate scarce resources to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Time is the most valuable natural resource we have.

But coincidences, in Charles's experience, were as rare as hen's teeth.

it's rarer than unicorn shit