Scarce Quotes

Scarce Quote of the day

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce knows, but its power will arise and the Circle will close.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.