Scarce Quotes · Page 2

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

In Flanders fields the poppies blow,

— John McCrae

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

— Dale Carnegie

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

“The scarce resource is no longer money. It’s human ability.”

— Geoff Colvin

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

— Peter R. Grant

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the…

— Plutarch

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Seth Godin

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

— Seth Godin

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

— Thomas Sherlock

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

— Henry Paulson

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

— Zig Ziglar

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very…

— Edmond Halley

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks,…

— John McCrae

And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

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

— Juvenal

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but…

— Voltaire

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a…

— Laurence Sterne

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

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was…

— Jerry Saltz

It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer…

— Sam Harris

Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with…

— Aron Ralston

Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed…

— William Ashworth

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

— Emily Dickinson

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

— Alice Walker

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

— Erik Brynjolfsson

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

— Hannah More

Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.

— Cory Barlog

“You and you're everything is scarce; There’s no one like you. You are fantastic and You will always be You.”

— M. Azeem Pasha

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

— John Suckling

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Greg Mankiw

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it…

— Charles Lamb

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

— John McCrae