Lacking Quotes
438 quotes by 389 authors
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Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of…
— E. O. Wilson
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Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.
— Gautama Buddha
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The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady…
— Colin Falconer
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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a…
— Sara Bonnett Stein
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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments…
— Solomon
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My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and…
— Sarah Ruhl
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You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play…
— Buddy Rich
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Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
— Bell Hooks
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
— Lope de Vega
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Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,…
— Helene Cixous
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We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
— Joseph Joubert
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I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
— George MacDonald
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is…
— Auguste Rodin
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The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
— James Geary
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The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than…
— Robert S. Johnson
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I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and…
— Gabriel Marcel
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
— Gunnar Myrdal
Who Wrote These Lacking Quotes
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