In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars… — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light. — Jane Poynter Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute… — Yossi Shain Copy Share Image
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image