Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more… — Claude Monet
Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our… — Susan Sontag
There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. — Democritus
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude… — Edward Weston
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable,… — Agnes Martin
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself… — Theodore Roosevelt
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. — Frederick Lenz
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can… — Randeep Hooda
Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban. — Andrew Ryan
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking. — Sheryl WuDunn
The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the… — Richard Bode
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid… — Sloane Crosley
The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A… — Mark Shields
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed… — Ron Fournier
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an… — Pope Francis

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