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My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. -- Edward Carpenter
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. -- Pericles
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. -- Gustave Flaubert
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. -- John Malkovich
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. -- Carl Jung
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. -- Andre Maurois
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. -- Paul Gauguin
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. -- Johannes Kepler
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. -- Buddy Rich
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. -- Marlene Dietrich
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. -- Daniel Goleman
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. -- Marsha M. Linehan
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. -- Rollo May
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. -- Hannah Arendt
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 one's nastiness does not make one nice. -- Michael Kinsley
Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever. -- Kim Du-han
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation. -- Daniel Suarez
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species. -- Thom Hartmann
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear. -- Tim Ferriss
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. -- Joel Chandler Harris
Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds. -- Marc Bekoff
Life and death have been lacking in my life. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration -- Duncan Sheik
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information. -- Michel Houellebecq
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. -- Franz Liszt
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. -- Bliss Carman
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. -- Craig Brown
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -- Laozi
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. -- Stefan Sagmeister
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. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. -- Allan Bloom
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 of music, obviously. -- Warren Zevon
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. -- Ai Weiwei
I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come. -- Jose Mourinho
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal. -- Pope Francis
The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body. -- David Perlmutter
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. -- William Thomas Green Morton
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. -- Shimon Peres
There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
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 something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. -- Max Muller
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name. -- Randeep Hooda
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. -- Michael Korda
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master. -- Dalai Lama
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. -- Patty Murray
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black. -- Suzy Menkes
Justice lacking passion fails, betrays. -- Jane Hirshfield
A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking. -- Dacia Maraini
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking. -- bell hooks
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality. -- Tadashi Yanai
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing. -- Teresa of Avila
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. -- Wole Soyinka
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable. -- Ovid
Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song. -- John Updike
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking. -- Walt Whitman
Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking -- Anita Roddick
Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders. -- Shakira
Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable. -- Ovid
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
We refer to the TLC Match as totally lacking coolness. -- Edge
If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing. -- Euripides
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. -- Frank Portman
THE ART OF PEACE is to fulfill that which is lacking. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital. -- Ludwig von Mises
If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage. -- Ronald Reagan
When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself. -- Madam Secretary
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. -- Cesar Millan
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. -- Lebbeus Woods
Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation -- Marianne Williamson
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted. -- Laozi
What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil. -- Chuck Smith
There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. -- Democritus
Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation. -- Marianne Williamson
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking. -- Sheryl WuDunn
Wherever there is peace lacking, try to create it and put it there! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking. -- Donita K. Paul
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion. -- Vince Lombardi
In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. -- Roger Ebert
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary. -- David Eller
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait. -- Bill Vaughan
The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. -- Alan Moore
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination. -- Fred G. Gosman
I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field. -- Rick Steves
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. -- Joseph Joubert
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. -- Christopher Smart
The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. -- Jim Goad
I look at movies, unfortunately, and I still see a lot of movies [lacking diversity]. -- George Lopez
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. -- Calvin Coolidge
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. -- Douglas Hurd
Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition." -- Paulo Coelho
Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance. -- Vanna Bonta
Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine. -- Frank Oski
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. -- Eric Hoffer
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that. -- Irrfan Khan
Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence" -- Keith Burkinshaw
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. -- Albert Bandura
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. -- James Geary
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. -- Robert McKee
We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god. -- Carl Einstein
Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head. -- Camille Paglia
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. -- Karl Kraus
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing. -- Thomas Aquinas
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! -- Arthur Rimbaud
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. -- Lope de Vega

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