#scarce

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#happiness #others #person #scarcely #tasting

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#etc #goods #initiated #materials #other

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 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

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#eradicating #excellence #faults #nearly #out

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hate #know #scarcely

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

— Isaac Barrow

#ever #express #make #safe #scarcely