#scarce

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#far #finer #more #much #rarer

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#ever #express #make #safe #scarcely

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#default #describe #i #i always #leisure

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#found #litigation #man #never #scarcely

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. ↗

— Laura Linney

#being #disgusting #get #happen #human

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going