--- title: "Famous Lacking Qoutes" description: "Browse 729 Lacking quotes by 622 authors. Discover the best Lacking sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/eleanor-smeal-14458_behinds_it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we_1909186.png" --- > [It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-smeal/it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we-as-women-s-rights-advocates/) [Eleanor Smeal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-smeal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/eleanor-smeal-14458_behinds_it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we_1909186.png) > [I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-fripp/i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-through-the-window-on-a-crisp-early/) [Robert Fripp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-fripp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-fripp-10320_concern_i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-throug_1882225.jpg) > [Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-august/preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because-i-thought-it-was-done-and/) [John August](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-august/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/john-august-24608_asking_preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because_489394.jpg) > [Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-gris/painting-for-me-is-like-a-fabric-all-of-a-piece-and-uniform-with-one/) [Juan Gris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-gris/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea8/juan-gris-36997_abstract_painting-for-me-is-like-a-fabric-all-of_836341.jpg) > [Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your-feeling-i-am-of-no-value-is/) [Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/dalai-lama-89_believe-in-yourself_human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your_627292.jpg) > [A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-franziska-von-trapp/a-refugee-is-not-just-someone-lacking-in-money-and-everything-else-a/) [Maria Franziska von Trapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-franziska-von-trapp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/maria-franziska-von-trapp-4963_able_a-refugee-is-not-just-someone-lacking-in_3084784.jpg) > [Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-finley/political-leaders-lacking-documents-that-could-be-kept-secret-apart/) [Moses Finley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-finley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/810/moses-finley-35513_constituents_political-leaders-lacking-documents-that_536322.jpg) > [It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/it-is-the-invariable-habit-of-bureaucracies-at-all-times-and/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/h-l-mencken-245_all-time_it-is-the-invariable-habit-of-bureaucrac_1475091.png) > [It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-cosgrove/it-s-instructive-to-consider-the-more-spectacular-and-well-known/) [Peter Cosgrove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-cosgrove/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/peter-cosgrove-32986_behinds_it-s-instructive-to-consider-the-more-sp_1487861.png) ## Top authors on Lacking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lacking/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-aquinas-90219.jpg) Thomas Aquinas 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lacking/thomas-aquinas/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-jung-20958.jpg) Carl Jung 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lacking/carl-jung/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lacking/#itemlist", "name": "Lacking Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eleanor Smeal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-smeal/it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we-as-women-s-rights-advocates/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/eleanor-smeal-14458_behinds_it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we_1909186.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/eleanor-smeal-14458_behinds_it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we_1909186.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/eleanor-smeal-14458_behinds_it-s-going-to-be-very-important-that-we_1909186.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both…” — Eleanor Smeal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Fripp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-fripp/i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-through-the-window-on-a-crisp-early/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-fripp-10320_concern_i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-throug_1882225.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-fripp-10320_concern_i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-throug_1882225.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/robert-fripp-10320_concern_i-would-like-with-the-sun-shining-throug_1882225.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a…” — Robert Fripp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the [Frankenweenie] junket and everyone started asking about it again. Preacher could be filmed, at any point. It's sort of ready to go, but it's lacking a green light. At some point, that green light might come, but it may never come. So, I have to allow for the fact that I've done everything I can, and whatever happens with it, happens with it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John August" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-august/preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because-i-thought-it-was-done-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/john-august-24608_asking_preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because_489394.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/john-august-24608_asking_preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because_489394.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/john-august-24608_asking_preacher-is-a-great-frustration-because_489394.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for…” — John August", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. 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Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dalai Lama" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your-feeling-i-am-of-no-value-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/dalai-lama-89_believe-in-yourself_human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your_627292.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/dalai-lama-89_believe-in-yourself_human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your_627292.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/dalai-lama-89_believe-in-yourself_human-potential-is-the-same-for-all-your_627292.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. 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