Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. — Peter Thiel
Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who… — Ridgely Torrence
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? — Jean de la Bruyere
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it… — John Donne
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith
Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is… — John C. Maxwell
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… — Eustace Budgell
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… — Ralph Merkle
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their… — Robert Waterman McChesney
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an… — William Cowper
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of… — Francis Bacon
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. — John Burnham Schwartz
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to… — Lester R. Brown
The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have… — Chris Bowen
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — Thomas Browne
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! — John Suckling
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. — Lord Chesterfield

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