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Abundance Quotes

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

– George Mercer Dawson

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

– Harry Seidler

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

– G. Stanley Hall

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of ‘likability’ hasn’t been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it’s been a centuries-long battle for respectability.

– John Ridley

How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins… Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages… what a stage for a Balzac.

– Harry Graf Kessler

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

– Brene Brown

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.

– Brian Skerry

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

– Buddha

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

– Epicurus

Wine is connected to abundance.

– Carole Bouquet

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

– Eileen Caddy

Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

– The Bible

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

– Deb Caletti

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

– Johannes Stark

When you’re in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it’s around us, it’s in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we’re going to live forever, which we’re not.

– John McGahern

Oh, I have five kids; I have plenty of abundance.

– Liz Cheney

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.

– Junipero Serra

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

– Karel Capek

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

– Khalil Gibran

From abundance springs satiety.

– Livy

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don’t have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

– K. Eric Drexler

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

– Orison Swett Marden

To eat in the same room where food is cooked – that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

– Paul Engle

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.

– Virginia Postrel

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

– Tom Douglas

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

– Stephen Covey

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they’re made out to be.

– Thomas P.M. Barnett

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

– Wayne Dyer

I’ve always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

– Walter Isaacson

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