#scarcity

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#friendship #scarcity

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#lobsters #scarcity #trivia #diet

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appears #buffalo #country #mr #penetrated

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats. ↗

— Brené Brown

#scarcity #society #stress #vulnerability #courage

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#all things #away #give #i #i think

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. ↗

— Adam Smith

#common #complaint #more #scarcity #than