Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death… — Ben Jonson
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any… — Thomas Hardy
â€¦â€¦, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes.… — Margaret Edson
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips… — Geoffrey Chaucer
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the… — Charles Eisenstein
Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was… — Isaac Marion
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.… — Dante Alighieri
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with… — E. O. Wilson
The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce… — Kerstin Gier
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the… — Antonio Guterres
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. — Herman Melville
Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment. — Erik Brynjolfsson
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict,… — Geoff Mulgan
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource,… — Adam Davidson
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to… — Clayton Christensen

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