#scarce

Capital isn't scarce; vision is. ↗

— Sam Walton

#scarce #vision

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. ↗

— E. B. White

#curtain #fall #find #leaves #play

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. ↗

— Cole Younger

#around #before #chiefly #citizens #company

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#form #hope #i #i can #make

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. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#appear #determining #difficult #distance #earth

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

#different #discovered #duty #eagerness #evolutions

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. ↗

— Robert Musil

#hung #people #perceptible #real #rested