Lack Quotes
2622 Lack quotes by 1865 unique authors
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
— Thomas Huxley
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
— Washington Irving
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After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism…
— Steve Israel
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
— Holbrook Jackson
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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they…
— Arne Jacobsen
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my…
— Jim Jarmusch
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
— Penn Jillette
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The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because…
— Michael Jordan
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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers…
— Meir Kahane
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations…
— Helen Keller
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
— Jack Kemp
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
— John F. Kennedy
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
— John F. Kennedy
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
— Jack Kerouac
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There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
— Dalai Lama
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I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.
— Artie Lange
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Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
— Jaron Lanier
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Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted…
— Denis Leary
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If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about…
— Denis Leary
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
— Timothy Leary
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
— Annie Lennox
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
— Oscar Levant
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