Scarce Quotes · Page 3

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

— Frank Herbert

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

— Jane Poynter

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Esther Dyson

“Love was something that at times was very scarce, especially self-love.”

— Lee Vickers

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

— William Cowper

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

— John Updike

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

— Mark Twain

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us…

— Laurence Sterne

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you…

— Seth

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first…

— Benjamin Franklin

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but…

— Marshall McLuhan

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues…

— Alexander Pope

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

— Jerry Saltz

The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is…

— Robert Frost

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…

— Charles Lamb

Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss,…

— Lord Byron

In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been…

— David Brainerd

I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are…

— Yoko Ono

It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert…

— Lester R. Brown

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to…

— Samuel Johnson

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification,…

— David Ricardo

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore…

— Stephan Kinsella

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

— Horace Walpole

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

— Josh Billings

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

— David Brainerd

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— John Milton

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

— Tyler Cowen

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

— John Donne

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Thomas a Kempis

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Plutarch

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

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— George Herbert