Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. — Natalie Portman
One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to… — Sean Penn
Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is… — Kurt Angle
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch… — Marsha M. Linehan
I like writing teen characters because theyâ€™re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context… — Allan Stratton
Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred, — Wendell Berry
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total… — Friedrich August von Hayek
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in… — Joel Chandler Harris
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and… — Epicurus
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his… — Thomas Aquinas
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and… — Alex Garland
A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological… — Karl Barth
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in… — Napoleon Hill
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about… — John Wooden

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