Quotes about Scant

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. Votes: 2

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Votes: 2

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. Votes: 2

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. Votes: 2

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety. Votes: 2

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. Votes: 2

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Votes: 2

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. Votes: 2

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. Votes: 2

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this. Votes: 2

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. Votes: 2

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. Votes: 2

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. Votes: 2

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness. Votes: 2

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Votes: 2

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Votes: 2

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one. Votes: 2

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over. Votes: 0

she shall scant show well that now shows best. Votes: 0

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. Votes: 0

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. Votes: 0

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there. Votes: 0

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines Votes: 0

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. Votes: 0

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. Votes: 0

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. Votes: 0

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. Votes: 0

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. Votes: 0

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it. Votes: 0

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality. Votes: 0

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues. Votes: 0

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. Votes: 0

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice. Votes: 0

According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience. Votes: 0