Quotes of: Shortage Keyword

The excess of one is the shortage of another.

Arabian

Great deeds come from times of shortage.

Japanese

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato sh...

Milton Friedman

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Robert Higgs

[addressing his class] Professor Biesenthal: Well, you four have the dubious honor of having been picked from over two hundred applicants for this seminar. Well, let me just say this. There's a shortage of natural resources. There's a shortage of bre...

Marathon Man

Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

There's no shortage of great young activists.

Gloria Steinem

There's no shortage of material in life.

Jonathan Ames

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Daniel Yergin

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Jeanne Calment

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

Barry Ritholtz

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Kenneth Lay

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.

Duncan Sheik

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective.

Tim Fargo

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

Leroy Chiao

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

The Fault in Our Stars

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Doug Larson

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cary Elwes

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

Sarah MacLean

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Maggie Gyllenhaal