Shortage Quotes - Page 6

• It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Environmental, Important

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• If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, People, Matter

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Optimistic, Science, Vision

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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Grandmother, Comfort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

  Gil Kane

  Paper

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Critics

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• We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

  Charles Hummel

  Time, Focus, Priorities

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• A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

  Ray LaHood

  Airports, World, Air Travel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

  Paul Klee

  Rain, Rooms, Wells

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.378, Univ of California Press

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• Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Opportunity, Growth

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• As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

  Robert Genn

  Motivation, Attitude, Block

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• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Turkeys, Pipeline, Want

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• The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Reinforcement, Retreat

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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• There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

  Keri Russell

  Female Role Models, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Law, Suffering

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.293, Routledge

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• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  Pete Wentz

  Train Wrecks, People, Creative

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• There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

  Jay Leno

  Fda, Drug, Attention

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• Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

  Benjamin Graham

  Suffering, Cotton, Wheat

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter V, Reservoir System and Commodities, p. 72, 1937.

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• What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

  Trey Parker

  Issues, Connections, Social

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• There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

  Iain Banks

  Simple, Expression, Facts

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• ...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

  Seth Godin

  Doors, Humanity, Hustle

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.89, Penguin

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, Useless Things, World

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Morning, Character

  Dave Ramsey (2013). “The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Life, Food

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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