Lacking Quotes
438 quotes by 389 authors
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest…
— Oscar Wilde
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Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Unfortunately, I can't seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that," says Effie grimly. "But don't worry, I'll get him to the…
— Suzanne Collins
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Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked…
— Victor Hugo
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As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could…
— John Calvin
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We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat…
— Suzanne Collins
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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy…
— Marianne Williamson
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Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd…
— William Styron
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I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by…
— Neal Shusterman
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Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as…
— Irvine Welsh
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In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust…
— Aravind Adiga
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For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;…
— Virginia Woolf
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
— Victor Hugo
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I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop…
— Lisa Kleypas
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When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we…
— Helene Cixous
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In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the…
— Francis Schaeffer
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We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we…
— Tara Brach
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I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Lacking Quotes
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