Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! How am I…

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

— James M. Barrie

I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in…

— Djuna Barnes

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

— William A. Dembski

“There is only one guaranteed way to be sure if you are vitamin B12 deficient and that is to get your doctor to prescribe…

— Steven Magee

“Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.”

— Alain de Botton

“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities…

— Idries Shah

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

— Salman Rushdie

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

— Jerome Frank

“You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.”

— Heidi Hall

“Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under…

— Anthony Liccione

Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient.

— Sun Tzu

“Many black people in the UK are vitamin D deficient.”

— Steven Magee

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

— Carol S. Dweck

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships…

— Mitch Albom