So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in…

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

— Frederick Buechner

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of…

— Michelle Obama

Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.

— Rose George

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.”

— Franz Kafka

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for…

— Samuel Johnson

Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive…

— Adolf Hitler

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a…

— Charles Darwin

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's…

— John Stuart Mill

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart…

— Suze Orman

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Anyhow, we obviously understand that, being a United States' ally and having a special relationship with it, the UK in its relations with Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that…

— Robert Englund

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

— Wendy Cope