Inelastic Supply Quotes & Sayings

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain. — Joe Abercrombie

She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers. — Lorrie Moore

The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered. — Reuven Rivlin

I think fear ... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear. — Bif Naked

Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind. — Louise Penny

There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. - Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972 — David Eso

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. — Sarah Louise Delany

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile. — Gerald Massey

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you. — Smith Wigglesworth

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. — Mary Catherine Bateson

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases. — Gregory Stock

Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end. — Ogwo David Emenike

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush. — Cindy Sheehan

This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness. — John Cowper Powys

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource. — Peter Drucker