Lacking Quotes
438 quotes by 389 authors
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Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
— Karl Kraus
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism…
— Thomas Nagel
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
— H. L. Mencken
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
— George Orwell
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period…
— Warren Zevon
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As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .…
— Johannes Kepler
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In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.
— Ben Bernanke
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Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So,…
— Ronnie Coleman
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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed…
— Alfred Binet
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for…
— Alfred Binet
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Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for…
— Franz Karl Achard
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with…
— Phil Keoghan
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only…
— Simone Weil
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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
— Laozi
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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to…
— William Maxwell
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The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often…
— Leon Redbone
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The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
— Jim Goad
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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at…
— Bobby Knight
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