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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. -- Elizabeth I
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. -- Quentin Crisp
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. -- Brent Scowcroft
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. -- Samantha Power
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety. -- Robin Marantz Henig
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. -- Conrad Black
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. -- Galileo Galilei
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. -- Felix Dennis
Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this. -- Srikumar Rao
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. -- James Loeb
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. -- Doug TenNapel
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness. -- Alice Morse Earle
The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. -- Theodore Dalrymple
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one. -- Nick Harkaway
When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over. -- Paul Smith
she shall scant show well that now shows best. -- William Shakespeare
Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. -- Italo Svevo
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there. -- Billie-Jo Williams
O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines -- Jean Toomer
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. -- Walter Scott
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. -- Don Herold
So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. -- William Shakespeare
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. -- Henry David Thoreau
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. -- Dorothy Lamour
To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it. -- Henry Latham Doherty
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality. -- Fannie Hurst
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues. -- Jed Diamond
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice. -- Agnes Repplier
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience. -- Barry Sanders

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