Top 100 Quotes About Shortage
#1. What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. There are a thousand ways to look at it ... We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors ... But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters ... The metaphors have implications and imperfections.
John Green
#3. You, Luce," he said, his voice tired. "There may not be a shortage of Adrianas out there, but there's only one you. And that's the person I want to give myself to.
Nicole Williams
#4. As Congress focuses on comprehensive health care reform, one thing needs to be clear: We cannot fix health care if we do not address America's nursing shortage.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#6. I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.
John Barrasso
#8. If there were no shortage of human resources in this world, consumers could buy everything and have everything they wanted. Then there would be no point in wondering how to succeed.
Harry Browne
#9. You may live in a small town, but that doesn't mean you have to get afflicted with one of the deadliest STD's - small town disease, which symptoms are repetitive droid-like behavior and a lack and shortage mentality
Robert J. Braathe
#10. Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
Kate O'Beirne
#11. All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer
#12. If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.
Carl Sagan
#13. A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
Patricia Schroeder
#14. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily
Lena Coakley
#15. I was sometimes irritated by the unrelenting inquisitiveness and criticism, but there was no shortage of help or advice or just someone to talk to if I needed it. It was hard to imagine a foreigner descending on an English community and being welcomed with such immediate acceptance and hospitality.
John Mole
#16. The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
Scott Westerfeld
#17. We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.
John Shelby Spong
#18. It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
Haruki Murakami
#19. We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
Jacque Fresco
#20. There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.
Gregory Wasson
#21. I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#22. Never will there be a shortage of reasons for anxiety, whether born of happiness or misery; life will press on its way from one pursuit to another; leisure will never be enjoyed, though the prayer is constantly on our lips.
Seneca.
#23. There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners' ...
Cesar Millan
#24. I want everyone to get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow, we make plans to bury the new council chair. And don't worry about the shovel shortage," I said, glancing from face to determined face. "Because Calvin Malone has dug his own grave.
Rachel Vincent
#25. Unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.
Robert Harris
#26. Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
Zainab Salbi
#27. There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.
John Green
#28. To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population
ah, that's proof of pure political genius.
Richard J. Needham
#29. God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.
John H. Groberg
#30. The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
Bill Gates
#31. Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
Stephen Colbert
#32. If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there's an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we've found your true calling.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.
Ray LaHood
#35. Whatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominica. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad!" I
Abraham Verghese
#36. We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .
Peter Drucker
#37. A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
Thomas Sowell
#38. As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.
Seth Godin
#39. Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.
Duncan Sheik
#40. THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic - not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
Harold Holzer
#41. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.
Thomas More
#42. Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.
David Perlmutter
#43. Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
Bill McKibben
#44. Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
Simon Cowell
#45. I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Richard Russo
#46. The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements ... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
Vasily Chuikov
#47. It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
Jose Contreras
#48. There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.
Jay Leno
#49. There's no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore's are real.
Argus Hamilton
#50. Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
Barnabas
#51. The Crusades, like the conquests that followed, were as much about overcoming Europe's monetary shortage as about converting heathens to Christianity.14
Niall Ferguson
#52. The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield."
~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander
R.L. Syme
#53. Largely because of a shortage of ammunition, the United States would be entirely unable to undertake major military operations for at least a year.
David E. Kaiser
#54. 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
#55. The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
David Price
#56. There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.
Cesar Milstein
#58. I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
Harry S. Truman
#59. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers
Unknown
#60. As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
Neal A. Maxwell
#61. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome:
Hunter S. Thompson
#62. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. The
Adam M. Grant
#63. Alan:I used rabbit-skin glue to size the panels. I got it from the art
shop. I don't know if they use real rabbits in it. It seems kind of a
shame if they do, but then it's not like there's a rabbit shortage, is
it? And maybe they only used rabbits that would've died anyhow.
J.L. Merrow
#64. Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
Jordan Klepper
#65. There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
David Nicholls
#66. Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.
Michael Lewis
#67. Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
Peter Ustinov
#69. Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.
George Soros
#70. He nods solemnly and repeats the stock response of the Housing Committee whenever they address the perpetual shortage of apartments in Leningrad. Privacy is a conceit of degenerate societies.
Debra Dean
#71. It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.
Richard Koch
#72. I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
Joe Manganiello
#73. 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 shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.
Milton Friedman
#74. Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Nora Ephron
#75. Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.
Ellen Stofan
#76. The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective.
Tim Fargo
#77. God has no shortage of liberating ideas.
Allen Ratta
#78. Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. "You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?
Ilona Andrews
#80. Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
Alan Huffman
#81. There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin
#82. Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.
Esther Hicks
#83. There will be no shortage of iron-ore, even in 2020, when Indian steel production is projected to rise to 100-million tons a year.
Dinsha Patel
#84. There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
John Green
#85. Your users will not care how effectively your resources are utilized as long as they are not affected by their shortage. When
Slawek Ligus
#86. The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
Alain De Botton
#87. I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down.
Peter Diamandis
#88. Despite the chronic shortages of almost every good and commodity, there was no shortage of paper, since everyone in the neighborhood was required to write confessions on a periodic basis. Even
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#89. The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.
Marco Rubio
#90. The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
Michel Chossudovsky
#91. Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#92. I'm living a life until I die so there will be no shortage of things to sing about.
Max Bemis
#93. There was a shortage of soft furnishings and I'm sorry to say I was forced to use hard liquor.
D.L. Christopher
#94. The constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?
Bill McKibben
#95. Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates
#96. To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
Kelly Miller
#97. If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
#98. There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.
Jim Rohn
#99. Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience.
Christopher Hitchens
#100. Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun
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