Quotes of: Scarce Keyword

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Armstrong Williams

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Joyce Carol Oates

Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, lik...

Smarra: & Trilby

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

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.

Lily Adams Beck

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

John Donne

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Joanna Lumley

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

Georg Brandes

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

Jane Poynter

You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Adam Braun

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Horace Walpole

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Abraham Lincoln