Quotes About Paucity

There was such a relative paucity of smells in California that the interconnectedness of all possible smells was not apparent. She

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant. The borderline between good fortune and disaster, between plenitude and paucity, between the warm hearth of love and the cold chamber of loneliness, was a narrow one. We could cross over from one to the other at any moment, as when we stumbled or fell, or simply walked over to the other side because we were paying insufficient attention to where we were.

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.

I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation