Quotes About Scarce

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

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

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.

A woman with a huge angry short-haired tabby in her arms came through from the surgery. The newly named Lucy's fur rose. She made a noise that suggested she had come to the boil. The tabby suddenly let out a yell. Dogs made ambiguous comments in their throats. "Oh Lor'!" said the newcomer. She grinned at Mr. Whipplestone. "Better make ourselves scarce," she said, and to her indignant cat: "Shut up, Bardolph, don't be an ass.

The hourglass runs low...

Estaban en guerra. El tiempo era un lujo que nadie podía ya permitirse. El mañana se antojaba tan efímero como un beso en la oscuridad.

The sand in the hourglass is running out, flowing relentlessly toward the end. There's never enough time, not when a person has become a part of you.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

It is a piece of luck to have relations scarce.

I value it as a morsel of genuine history, a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

The only thing rare is time.

What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.

Love is free, but priceless.Wisdom is precious, but costless.Faith is gentle, but fearless.Joy is scarce, but limitless.Truth is simple, but matchless.

Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.

Many other countries in the region also have money and oil, but they haven't done much good with it - at least not enough to stop the Middle East's disastrous wars. Saudi Arabia at least has something else: stability, a scarce commodity in the region.

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

All that is rare for the rare.

Is that part of being a god, manifesting yourselves exclusively in forms of fiction, and making yourselves scarce when it matters?

Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left.

In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.