These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes…

“There will never be another caterpillar just like this one. there will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction. These things…

— Margaret Atwood

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own,…

— Margaret Atwood

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer,…

— Watchman Nee

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to…

— Justus von Liebig

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously…

— Anonymous

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

— Tryon Edwards

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that…

— Malcolm X

“For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was…

— Ellen Miller

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of…

— Robert Peel

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and…

— Helmut Schmidt

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse…

— David Antin

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something…

— Jane Austen

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

— Linus Pauling