Top 373 Scarce Quotes & Sayings

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

Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

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 saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

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

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

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

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

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

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

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

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

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

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

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

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

Competence is no longer scarce.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

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

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

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

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

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

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

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

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

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

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.

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 be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

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 knows, but its power will arise and the Circle will close.

The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

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

Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting With the verdure-vested ground; Now like swallows o'er a river Gliding low with quivering pinion, Now aloft in ether sailing "Leisurely as summer cloud;" Rising now, anon descending, Swift and bright as shooting stars, Thus we travel glad and free.

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

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

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

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.