Deficient Quotes

72 Deficient quotes by 64 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy. — James M. Barrie
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
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
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying. — Carol S. Dweck
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. — Salman Rushdie
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
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
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
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
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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