Shortage Quotes

This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. (Aneurin Bevan)
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. View quote
Annie Dillard
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. View quote
Richard Russo
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. View quote
Doug Larson
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. View quote
Daniel Yergin
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad. View quote
Vasily Chuikov
Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for the socialists "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat? (Benjamin Graham)
There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.... View quote
Cesar Millan
We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model. View quote
Peter Drucker
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj. View quote
Masaru Emoto
Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's. View quote
Armand Hammer
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. View quote
Doug Larson
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. View quote
Andrew Shue
There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. View quote
Cary Elwes
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. View quote
David Price
Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog. View quote
Duncan Sheik
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. (Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley)
You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position. View quote
Kenneth Lay
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material. View quote
Trey Parker
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. View quote
Germaine Greer
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. View quote
Haruki Murakami