Lacking Quotes
In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.
No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
You're gonna get helped, if you're lacking it, in any way, because everybody's objective is to make a good picture.
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.
Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.
A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
