Scarce Quotes

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Competence is no longer scarce.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.

Water is becoming a very scarce resource on a daily basis. Therefore, we need to teach communities to preserve it since we can't afford to live without water.

Listening has certainly become a scarce skill, therefore we need ways to enhance this skill especially for the next generation.