Lacking Quotes · Page 4

There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to…

— TJ Hoisington

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly…

— Francis Collins

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

— Pat Conroy

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

— Janis Ian

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly…

— Christopher Meloni

“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

— Joseph Hertz

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

— Lou Rawls

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself.…

— Dalai Lama

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking…

— Samuel P. Huntington

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands…

— Emma Goldman

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make…

— Roger Ebert

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never…

— Alfred Binet

When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you…

— Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any…

— Mark Twain

It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either…

— Ernest Sosa

We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless…

— Pope Francis

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If…

— Anonymous

I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes…

— Sloane Crosley

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a…

— Joe Morgan

One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't…

— Sean Penn

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen…

— Agnes Repplier

...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as…

— John Cassian

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But…

— Ezra Pound

When I was at Everton, I went through a lot of up and down spells, lacking in confidence.

— Ross Barkley

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

— Honore de Balzac

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

— Natalie Portman

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

“If you are stuck in the idea that you need to be perfect, you are definitely lacking in self-love. ”

— Jonathan Bello

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the…

— E. V. Lucas

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both,…

— Margaret Atwood

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

— Theodore Levitt

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.

— Barack Obama

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.”

— T.H. White

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

— Marianne Faithfull

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

— Anonymous

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as…

— Greg Boyle