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Quotes About Shortage

Water is one of the most basic and vital requirements for survival. And with the issue of water shortage aggravating every single day, it's just something I felt we had to address and spread the message on whatever level we can.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
~ Barry Ritholtz
Any shortage of drinking water is a serious issue.
~ Mike Parson
Live donor transplant will overcome both the problem of organ shortage and the problem of cadaver livers that are damaged because it has taken too long to get consent and too long to remove the organ and get it to where it needs to be. Live donor liver transplant is the inevitable and necessary next step.' 
~ Abraham Verghese
The chronic shortage of oil, the debility of the European coal mines and the fragility of the food chain, made it seem unlikely that Germany would in fact be able to 'consolidate' its conquests of 1940 without falling into excessive dependence on the Soviet Union.
~ Adam Tooze
There is no shortage of apologists for the ubiquitous highway crud.
~ James Howard Kunstler
In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This country's in the grips of total pandemonium. All over Japan, it's as if eighty million people had simultaneously gone out of their minds. Staple foods are either rationed or else completely unavailable, and the distribution always seems to be running behind schedule. On top of that, the authorities have cracked down on hoarding, and anyone caught laying in supplies is ruthlessly punished.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.
~ John Barrasso
When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage of physicians in the rural areas of the state.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
Too few nurses puts patients at risk. It also risks the mental and physical health of the nurses we do have, as the fewer staff there are on a ward, the harder it gets to pick up the pieces.
~ Susanna Reid
These strongly Aristotelian attitudes, which still dominate many societies today, reflected a suspicion of the middleman. They were thought to make money not by adding intrinsic value to the traded item, but by moving goods or money to areas of shortage, or even, many believed, by creating the shortage in the first place.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.
~ David Cohen
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
~ Thomas Sowell
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
~ Azim Premji
I think housing is not a simple commodity because we are so in short supply of land. So the government has a role to play in providing housing - decent housing and affordable housing - for the people of Hong Kong.
~ Carrie Lam
To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
~ Kelly Miller
There aren't 32 of them in the world that I think can be quarterbacks of Super Bowl champion teams. Supply is short.
~ Paul DePodesta
Output had fallen to about half that figure in the last years of the Red empire, causing a cigarette shortage so severe that Soviet ruler Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to stave off rioting by emergency bulk purchases from foreign manufacturers—20 billion units from Philip Morris was the largest single order—paid for with Russian oil, gold, and diamonds.
~ Richard Kluger
Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.
~ Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.
~ Bob Dylan
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
~ George Orwell
All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.
~ Peter Schiff
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
~ Peter Ustinov