#scarce

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#back #engagements #footing #future #getting

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#i #killing #living #myself #scarcely

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#first #often #our #repent #scarce

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#day #did #happy #hour #i

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beat #beginning #being #end #energy

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#find #friend #go #going #looking

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

#discharge #done #duty #employed #executed

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

#conduct #drawn #ground #hereafter #i

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #dependent #increasingly #learning #now