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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
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. -- Edmond Halley
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. -- Mark Twain
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below -- John McCrae
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. -- Alexander Pope
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. -- William Shakespeare
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. -- John Updike
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified. -- Samuel Johnson
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened. -- Alessandro Manzoni
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin. -- Samuel Garth
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that. -- William Butler Yeats
Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances. -- Robin Sharma
That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. -- Nick Carter
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. -- William Shakespeare
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent. -- Benjamin Franklin
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. -- John Donne
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. -- Jimmy Buffett
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. -- Mark Twain
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention. -- Henry Paulson
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
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. -- Oswald Chambers
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist. -- Joe Bastianich
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. -- Gary Hamel
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. -- Peter Diamandis
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work. -- Virginia Postrel
Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent. -- Tyra Banks
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. -- Francis Bacon
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. -- Michael Franti
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment. -- Mick Cornett
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. -- William Blake
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself. -- Ban Ki-moon
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society, such as platinum, copper and zinc, are rapidly becoming scarce. The asteroids might offer a replacement supply, providing the materials our descendants will need for a high quality life. -- Seth Shostak
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
Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. -- Jerry Saltz
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. -- Sam Walton
Competence is no longer scarce. -- Seth Godin
Thinkers are as scarce as gold. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. -- Thomas Browne
Competence is no longer a scarce commodity. -- Seth Godin
Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself. -- Dale Carnegie
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed. -- Amy Hempel
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield. -- Peter Drucker
Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources. -- Tom Peters
Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. -- Greg Mankiw
Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook. -- John Milton
The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea. -- DJ Spooky
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt. -- William Shakespeare
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. -- Peter Thiel
You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. -- Kevin Kelly
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. -- Oliver Goldsmith
When respect becomes scarce the last resort is the respect of one's self -- Constance Chuks Friday
The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it. -- Robert Cialdini
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. -- Horace Walpole
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. -- David Brainerd
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above. -- Edmund Spenser
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! -- Lord Byron
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. -- Thomas Browne
... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. -- Elizabeth Inchbald
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. -- John Campbell Shairp
It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there. -- Seth
For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight. -- William Shakespeare
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied. -- Benjamin Franklin
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce. -- Alice Walker
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. -- John Burnham Schwartz
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. -- Frank Herbert
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. -- Josh Billings
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. -- Herman Melville
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. -- William Cowper
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. -- Hannah More
Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources. -- Kofi Annan
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. -- Seth Godin
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value. -- Seth Godin
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce. -- Lawrence Hargrave
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. -- Benjamin Franklin
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way. -- Joyce Grenfell
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. -- Thomas Sherlock
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. -- George Herbert
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future. -- Esther Dyson
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light. -- Jane Poynter
Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it. -- Werner Erhard
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that! -- Clayton Christensen
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs. -- Lamar S. Smith
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. -- Thomas a Kempis
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -- Robert Half
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. -- Michelle Bachelet
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. -- Adam Smith
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. -- John Hillaby
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. -- William Shakespeare
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. -- Bill Vaughan
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. -- Plutarch
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. -- Benjamin Franklin
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce. -- John Maynard Keynes
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... -- Tyler Cowen
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today. -- John C. Maxwell
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? -- Jean de la Bruyere
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. -- Ban Ki-moon
I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room -- Emily Dickinson
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -- Elbert Hubbard
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. -- Lord Chesterfield
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! -- John Suckling
For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. -- Jerry Saltz
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying -- Charles Lamb

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