Lacking Quotes

438 quotes by 389 authors

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest — Alfred Adler
When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition… — Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity. — Jayne Meadows
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration — Duncan Sheik
I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. — Lou Rawls
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. — Wendell Berry
I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality… — Joan D. Chittister
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from… — W. R. Thompson
Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression… — Taitetsu Unno
I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking.… — Peter Greenaway
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God.… — Pope Benedict XVI
In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that peopleâ€™s value is not measured by their possessions or how much… — Pope Francis
I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something… — Jamie Sives
To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be… — Ezra Taft Benson
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of… — Michael Kinsley
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. — Christopher Smart
...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me... — John M. Geddes

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