Lacked Quotes

143 Lacked quotes by 133 unique authors

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. — Saul Bellow
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob… — John Keegan
This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that… — Walter Hill
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and… — Geoffrey Chaucer
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips
The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is… — Will Rogers
One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How,… — William Wordsworth
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though… — Saul Bellow
Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy,… — Ron Fournier
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called… — Lucian Freud
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to… — Roger Ebert
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,'… — Rahm Emanuel
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of… — Audrey Hepburn
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible… — Vladimir Putin
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. — Gabrielle Union
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. — Charles Bukowski
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to… — Nora Roberts
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood… — T.E. Lawrence
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… — David Foster Wallace
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though… — Nicholas Sparks
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles

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