Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind… — Buddy Rich
I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to… — Howard Schultz
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. — Gertrude Stein
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and… — Lewis Thomas
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and… — Leonardo da Vinci
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. — Francis Collins
Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking — Anita Roddick
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to… — Che Guevara
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their… — Agatha Christie
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life.… — Augusten Burroughs
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. — Cesar Millan
His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. — Albert Camus
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.… — Thomas Aquinas
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous… — Muhammad Asad
Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking. — Donita K. Paul
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to… — Louise Bogan

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