Lacked Quotes

143 Lacked quotes by 133 unique authors

She was remorseless, but she lacked method. — Diana Wynne Jones
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace… — James Ellroy
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code… — Orson Scott Card
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. — Umberto Eco
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really… — Gary D. Schmidt
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then… — William Shakespeare
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire — Eduardo Galeano
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the… — Meg Rosoff
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?'… — Terry Pratchett
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who… — Albert Camus
Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something… — Steig Larsson
We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen. — Joshua Ferris
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell
Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and… — Cassandra Clare
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked… — Victor Hugo
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. — Anne Bronte
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure… — Audrey Niffenegger
Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for… — Mary Doria Russell
The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but… — Neal Shusterman
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He… — Daphne du Maurier
I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving… — Lisa Kleypas

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