Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability… — Ron Rash
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. — Scott Ritter
How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do… — Frederick Lenz
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. — Vance Havner
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,… — John Malkovich
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a… — Gerhard Richter
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. — Marlene Dietrich
The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer… — Dave Barry
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any… — Stephen Batchelor
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our… — Arthur Keith
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do,… — Alex Flinn
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a… — Mem Fox
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you… — Joshua Ferris
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian
If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what… — Emmet Fox
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre

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