Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.… — William James
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We canâ€™t simply relax with ourselves. We hold… — Pema Chodron
I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knifeâ€¦ as if Iâ€™m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. Thatâ€™s why… — Margaret Atwood
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite… — Jean Baudrillard
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. — Alan Moore
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.… — Joseph Heller
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur… — Lloyd Alexander
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... — Daphne du Maurier
Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of… — Marc Bekoff
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes â€” who meet and observe… — Thomas Mann
Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking… — Thomas Hardy
We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us… — Bell Hooks

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