Quotes About Shortage

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

I personally bought three liters of kerosene two days ago. And now there's just a drop left on the bottom, not enough to stick up a dog's ass. You just can't leave anything in the kitchen anymore.

There is evil in excess; there is evil in scant measure.

In 2013, the Venezuelan government accused the opposition of hoarding toilet paper and causing a national shortage.

Even normal services such as schools were in short supply. Of the twenty largest cities in America, Philadelphia, the city of Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, spent less on education than all but one. In all of South Philadelphia, home to hundreds of thousands of Italians and Jews, there would be no high school until 1934.

The fucking world is running out of gas.

Life is short and so is money

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

We ran out of food," said Potts.

You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.

I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults. But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years... ...it would be that I sometimes get angry.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the waterright to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.