#scarce

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

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#california #certain #certain things #example #expensive

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#earth #people #scarce #sir #without

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#books #concerning #conducting #found #importance

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

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

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#found #litigation #man #never #scarcely

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. ↗

— John McCrae

#below #between #blow #bravely #crosses