#scarce

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#day #did #happy #hour #i

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#find #friend #go #going #looking

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

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

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hate #know #scarcely

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#far #finer #more #much #rarer

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. ↗

— Laura Linney

#being #disgusting #get #happen #human

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#ever #express #make #safe #scarcely

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going