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Quotes About Scarce

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. Their words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. How well he could have applied this passage to the last words of Jesus on the cross.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Il tempo è come il fascino. Non ne hai mai quanto vorresti.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Good men are like good hairdressers. Hard as hell to find.
~ Zane
Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns.
~ Jennifer Niven
Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one.
~ Jennifer Niven
Yet because few historians have concerned themselves with the lesser gentry, the case studies which would settle the issue are scarce.
~ Amanda Vickery
Ma non esiste una qualità che non abbia un costo. Più bella e rara la qualità, più alto il costo
~ Andrea De Carlo
The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Weil said. "Details are scarce, and I'm not a scientist, but it involves a biologically mediated attempt at communicating with the Hypotheticals.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Vaya, los buenos corazones no son tan escasos como yo creía! ¡Es maravilloso saber que el mundo está lleno de ellos!
~ L.M. Montgomery
We're not in the habit of shutting people up in dark, damp dungeons, said Marilla dryly, especially as they're rather scarce in Avonlea.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
~ Alexander Crummell
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
~ Bill Vaughan
Star people are rare.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Happiness in an intelligent person is the rarest thing I know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
~ Wangari Maathai
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
~ Chow Yun-Fat
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
~ Aldous Huxley
Dependable and talented are rare.
~ Jim Rugg
Time is a finite resource.
~ Rumaan Alam
Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
~ Salman Rushdie
It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.
~ Salman Rushdie