Scarce Quotes - Page 11

• Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

  Plutarch

  Men, Spokes, Mets

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Children, Home

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5073, NYU Press

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• Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

  Seth Godin

  Grace, Connections, Values

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• You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Waste, Patient, Poor

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• The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Punishment, Missing

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• Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Quality, Vices, May

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• Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Age, Pathways

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.74

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• The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, People, World

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.93

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• Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mean, Alternatives, Behaviour

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• If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

  Zig Ziglar

  Needs, Ifs

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• the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

  Rosita Forbes

  Camels, Grass, Throwing

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Art, Exercise, Names

  Elizabeth Inchbald (1998). “A Simple Story”, p.30, OUP Oxford

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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate,
  Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate.
  In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like,
  They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

  Alexander Pope

  Soil, Bears, Wonder

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.195

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• And what the people but a herd confus'd,
  A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
  Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
  They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
  And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
  And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
  To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
  Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

  John Milton

  People, Tongue, Delight

  John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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• There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Passion, Disputes, Controversy

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• The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Suicide, Business, Thinking

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

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• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Heart, Men

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• Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived that they bee but halfe our subjectes, yea, and scarce our subjectes: for all the prelates at their consecration make an othe to the pope, clene contrary to the the that they make to us, so that they seme to be his subjectes, and not ours.

  Henry VIII of England

  Bees, Beloved, Pope

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• The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).

  Stephan Kinsella

  Party, Self, Acting

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Fiesta, Economy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.

  Aml Ameen

  Waiting Around, People, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  DJ Spooky

  Ideas, Resources, These Days

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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