Shortage Quotes - Page 5

• I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

  Harry S. Truman

  Christian, Thinking, Charity

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Years, Would Be, Desert

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• I'm always suffering from a labor shortage.

  Masamune Shirow

  Suffering, Labor

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• There is no shortage of disputes.

  Howard Raiffa

  Disputes

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Cities, Projects, Should

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• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Journalism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• 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

  Country, Political, Population

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• In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Selfish

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Environmental, Important

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• The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.

  Lester R. Brown

  Running, Years, Sea

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• If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, People, Matter

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• 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

  Book, Grandmother, Comfort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Bananas, Capitalism

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• It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

  Masaru Emoto

  Water, Body, Disease

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• One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

  J.H. Wyman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, May, Want

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and so that was the thing that really won him over. The story itself, on the surface - Patrick and I love actors almost in a geeky kind of way.

  Todd Farmer

  Character, Stories, Actors

  "Screenwriter Todd Farmer On Set Interview DRIVE ANGRY 3D". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 19, 2010.

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• ... 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

  World, Flow, Cranes

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• What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Support, Empowerment, Black

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Pieces, Erratic

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• But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, Too Late, World

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• I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

  Andrew Shue

  Teacher, Math, Six Months

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Europe

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Thinking

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