Lacking Quotes
438 quotes by 389 authors
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Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.
— Michel Houellebecq
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China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I…
— Ma Jian
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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
— Pat Conroy
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The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
— Ogden Nash
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...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very…
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3,…
— Confucius
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Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at…
— Wesley L Duewel
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Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary…
— Ambrose
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Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem…
— Derek R. Audette
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I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and…
— William Styron
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We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the…
— Pope Francis
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence…
— Edward M Hays
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We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
— Christopher Bollen
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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
— William Shakespeare
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A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
— Eric Hoffer
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I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
— Vince Lombardi
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Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately…
— Paul Gauguin
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