Scarce Quotes

The reason I became a Republican is because (Dwight D. Eisenhower) was running. A hero from World War II, a charismatic individual, a military man, a non-attorney - even then I liked that! I was a very young person voting for the first time. A lot of people joke that a conservative is a liberal who`s made his first $100,000 and then decides,"Wait a second, I want to save this, why are they taxing it away?". Today the country`s in kind of a turmoil over taxing. Being raised in the thirties, watching my parents work hard to make ends meet, with jobs scarce, and then the war years - it tends to make a person a little more fiscally conscious than if you`ve been born into a wealthier family. You know, if you go to most people who are self-made and ask them what their political philosophy is, usually they`re a little more conservative than people who had a better start.

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

(Referring to Mahatma Gandhi after Gandhi`s assassination) Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth!

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.

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.

Capital isn`t scarce; vision is.

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.

There are very few parcels with an acre or above, ... If you needed five to 10 acres, it would be very scarce.

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

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

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

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

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

Getting our military back on stable footing won`t happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she`s spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain