Lacking Quotes

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to do with attitude.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.

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.

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 with any kind of guts.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

I look at movies, unfortunately, and I still see a lot of movies [lacking diversity].

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.