Shortage Quotes - Page 4

• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Turkeys, Pipeline, Want

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• At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Math, Winning, Cities

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

  Robert Genn

  Motivation, Attitude, Block

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• The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Ideas, Foundation, World

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.16, Random House

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• Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Opportunity, Growth

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• Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Men, Ideas, Abundance

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• If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

  Betty Furness

  Country, Sacrifice, Consumers

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• 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

  Heart, Energy, Connections

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

  Patrick Califia

  Commitment, Long, Interesting

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• Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Disaster, Made

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, Electric Power, People

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• Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

  Bob Frank

  Demand, Financial, Great Depression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Teacher, School, College

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.

  Robert Barry

  Long Ago, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

  Nigel Farage

  Simple, Issues, Permit

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  Elayne Boosler

  Animal, Average, Years

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• There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Past, Competition

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an abundance of cheap fuel and airplanes. There probably isn't an abundance of gates at popular airports, either.

  David Neeleman

  Airplane, Airports, Fuel

  Source: skift.com

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• I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Mechanism

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, wbaa.org. December 16, 2016.

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• One of the topics that [Pope Francis] wants to raise, according to many Vatican analysts, is given the shortage of - worldwide shortage of priests is the possibility of a married priesthood. But he needs more backing from his bishops right now.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Want, Topics, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As we move forward, you cannot resolve the potential food crisis or shortages without science being part of the solution. Science has to be part of the solution but African governments - and these are decisions for governments, whether they embrace or do not embrace genetically modified food - and for the moment, most African companies do not accept genetically modified seeds.

  Kofi Annan

  Moving, Government, Decision

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• There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

  Bryan Hayes

  Song, Life Changing, Inspiration

  "Bryan Hayes To Play At Sweet T Market". Interview With Linley Stringer, maroonweekly.com. December 2, 2015.

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