Top 33 Ration Quotes
#2. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.
George Orwell
#3. Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.
Slug
#4. People don't realize where unsweet tea came from. During the war they had to ration sugar, so then everybody just had to drink bitter tea, or unsweet.
Si Robertson
#5. I'm always reading books - as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
Donald Berwick
#7. For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.
Eva Ibbotson
#8. Perhaps, she thought, that's what love does. It's not there to make you feel special. It's to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie - two words for the same thing.
Katherine Rundell
#9. I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant
#11. In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
William Odom
#12. Government has every incentive to ration care for the sick and lavish attention on the healthy.
Regina Herzlinger
#13. If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.
Judd Apatow
#14. If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand
#15. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...
Roman Payne
#16. Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
Zubin Mehta
#17. Half-ration for dinner. All I accomplished today was thinking up a plan that'll kill me, and that doesn't take much energy.
Andy Weir
#18. I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
Michael Foreman
#19. Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.
Tony Mendoza
#20. The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
Kurt Bills
#21. The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
David Foster Wallace
#22. When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.
Joel Berg
#24. Nobody can be lucky all the time, / so when your luck deserts you in some fashion / don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, / but rather that you're saving up your ration
Piet Hein
#25. The same glucose ration was scrupulously administered to all the flasks equally.
Richard Dawkins
#26. The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
Michel De Certeau
#27. There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
Charlie Norwood
#28. Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
Vladimir Lenin
#29. I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#30. Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason
you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
Desiderius Erasmus
#32. He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.
Markus Zusak
#33. As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder ...
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
