#scarce

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. ↗

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#attachment #corners #ever #fiction #four

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. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#cell #cell phone #example #for example #operators

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#considering #evil #faith #feel #get

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#breathe #charity #heart #kindliness #magnanimity

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#eradicating #excellence #faults #nearly #out

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#best #ever #gives #must #nature

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗