Shortage Quotes

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.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

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.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

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.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

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.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.