Deficient Quotes
72 Deficient quotes by 64 unique authors
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You…
— Amy Tan
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about…
— Oscar Wilde
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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.
— Julia Quinn
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There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her.…
— D. H. Lawrence
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That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he…
— Cassandra Clare
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Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
— James M. Barrie
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You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.
— Katie MacAlister
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As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only…
— Thomas Ligotti
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
— Carol S. Dweck
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An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
— Christopher Hitchens
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You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,…
— Anne Bronte
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If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you…
— Rajneesh
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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are…
— Seth Shostak
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
— Salman Rushdie
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Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly…
— Mark Hyman
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
— Susan Sontag
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Marriage is not a union, merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect…
— Frederick W Robertson
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There is no word whose meaning has been proven to be deficient more often than the word impossible.
— T Jay Taylor
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