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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

The university has to make decisions about how we use our very, very scarce repair-and-rehabilitation funds.

Kirk White

If you knew how scarce lab space is on this campus, you'd understand how big a deal it is to have this kind of laboratory space available. It just opens all kinds of opportunities.

Steve Bloom

It takes scarce dollars away from more effective programs that could help people stay out of trouble with drugs. It's a huge privacy invasion for not much gain.

Beth Wilson

I came three years ago, and it was nothing like this. There aren't a lot more people selling. For some reason, they're scarce.

Chris Graham

Fighting about issues [from] 25 years ago robs our children of resources, which are already scarce.

Arne Duncan

A significant part of demand right now is based on speculation that something is going to happen in the future or near future to make supplies much more scarce.

Michael Darda

Unfortunately, sometimes you see big wealth transfers occur when something becomes scarce.

Severin Borenstein

I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.

C. S. Calverley

To improve highways, we should rethink the way revenues are raised instead of only increasing them. The present highway finance system can remain viable for some time, but the right reforms might give us a system that not only pays for roads, but also allows us to manage traffic flow and ensure that scarce funds are invested in projects with the greatest public benefit.

Rudolph Penner

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

Josh Billings

In Flanders Field the poppies bow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

John McCrae

I am very attached to my family, but here at home the opportunities are scarce. I [have] turned into a sort of cosmopolitan anyway, feeling at ease at anywhere.

Arpad Tzumo

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Kevin Kelly

It depends on how states look at scarce resources and their commitment to higher education.

Michael Whitcomb

When I see that waterfront project as a taxpayer, I'm worried. But as an economist, I'm even more worried because I see capital being wasted in an economy where it will be very scarce reasonably soon. And that has something to do with how fast you can expect the (Japanese) economy to grow.

Robert Feldman

What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.

Thomas Walsingham

The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

George Reisman

Aside from cultural-religious reasons, the procedure is too costly. With a price tag of P1 million per transplant, we can operate on five to seven charity patients. So why use your scarce resources on a single operation?

Dr. Ludgerio Torres

Pilots are a scarce resource given China's rapidly growing aviation industry. An increase in fleet size calls for more pilots.

Wang Wanlong

When we had abundant cheap power there is less incentive to develop alternative sources of power. Now that we face scarce electricity supplies and much higher prices, that is changing.

Scott Bosse

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made scarce.

Barbara Mikulski

High-quality charters are competing for scarce philanthropic dollars, and million-dollar donations are rare. In Kendra you've got an educator with a game plan and a good track record.

Caprice Young

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. People who can implement those ideas are as scarce as hen's teeth.

Jon Goodman

The sheriff cried on television because he has no money to pay his employees, and food is scarce, ... I told them I would reach Gov. Bush and ask him to let the president know so they can get some help.

Doug Anderson

It is a big, fat invitation to fraud which would overwhelm the system, and a diversion of scarce resources from where they are needed.

Janice Kephart

The looting is out of control. The French Quarter has been attacked. We're using exhausted, scarce police to control looting when they should be used for search and rescue.

Jackie Clarkson

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Hospitals already are stretching scarce resources to respond to the daily challenges of providing care to all who come through our doors. Cuts to these resources will have a negative impact on the availability of care for the patients and communities we serve.

Dick Davidson

You know how it was for me earlier in the season [when starts were scarce]. I don't care where I hit, as long as I'm in there.

Rich Aurilia

It's difficult that the need would be fully satisfied, ... but that's the nature of scarce resources.

Martin Chavez

This is a matter of too much of a good thing is not good after all. Whilst South Africa has recently been hit by disastrous droughts and is also known to be a water scarce country, the current constant rainfalls are now posing a challenge.

Karl Lubout

[And when Patterson questioned] how do you allocate scarce resources without goals and objectives, ... the same way we did it when you were the city's chief financial officer.

Terry Roberts

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Nick Carter

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Mike Harding

The reality of this situation is that scarce resources will have to be allocated to this liability. That's the reality and it has not sunk in.

Larry Semmens

But once they heard there was gas up here, they came Sunday and Monday and we had more hunters. I wish the birds would have been the same way. We had plenty on Saturday but they were scarce the next two days.

Phillip Thomas

Both the hotel workers and their families, and the tourists, were fed and given water in food lines, ... Food and water were growing scarce. On the 30th, it was announced that 10 buses were on their way.

Fred Powell

It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.

Barney Frank

Hockey could be a fairly solid niche market. In many parts of the country, the selection of products is fairly scarce.

Ken Cassar

Rising prices are a signal to consumers to use less of something that is becoming scarce.

Brian Lee

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Sam Walton

Supply to capital is extremely scarce. The reason for that has a lot to do with the fact that the people who supply the capital have already been burnt once and are trying to get out.

Rajeev Gupta

Quality property at the top-end of the market is still pretty scarce.

Tai Hui

Jobs here are scarce. A home would have been a big benefit for us. It would have made a lot of difference.

Josephine Childress

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

Henry Hazlitt

Many communities are refocusing growth back on the urban center. Land is scarce in these locations. High demand drives the price of land through the roof. To be affordable, it forces housing to go vertical. You have a need for 10-, 20- and 30-story high-rises.

Jerry Starkey

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

Henry Vaughan

Spectrum is considered a scarce resource.

Linda Doyle

Liberty of conscience from the power of the civil magistrate hath been of late years so largely and learnedly handled, that I shall need to be but brief in it; yet it is to be lamented, that few have walked answerably to this principle, each pleading it for themselves, but scarce allowing it to others, as hereafter I shall have occasion more at length to observe.

Robert Barclay

It's to get people to realize what they have and feel thankful, in hopes that if they gain an appreciation for what they have they might want to save it in the future when land becomes very scarce. We want to maintain a sense of connection with the natural world.

Debora Davidson

The more people you have in an area, the more straws you have sucking on a water supply, and it is scarce. The constant changes in the hydrology of the area - it's happening way too fast in the Gilroy/Hollister area.

Patricia Anderson

The world is recognizing you can't keep building 1950s-style ranch houses because we don't have the land anymore. I don't think San Jose is any different. As all cities mature and grapple with land becoming more scarce, there's still a desire to build housing in a community.

David Vossbrink

It's the business stuff they need to know. Those folks are really scarce.

Mike O'connor

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

Nicolas Retsinas