Quotes about Scarcity

Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.

Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when on finds it.

There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when one finds it.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Believing this, as I do, there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of a love that is in fact the same Love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us while we starve.

They then started to test the other children, and it was discovered that none of us had sufficient vitamin C, D, or A in our diets. We never had fruit, never had raw leafy greens, never had milk. There was plenty of this on the Island, you know, but it was all sold, every scrap of it, to the mainland, and had been since slavery time.

In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.