Lacking Quotes

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  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

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• 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

  Order, Diversity, Heaven

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

  Franz Liszt

  Real, Men, Tests

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• It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity

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• The ghosts you chase you never catch.

  John Malkovich

  Ghost

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• If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

  Juliette Binoche

  Goes On, Want, Something Better

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

  Edward Carpenter

  Years, Ideas, Shapes

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Attitude, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Nature, Invention

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Crush, Political Will, Tools

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.24, Vintage

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• Life and death have been lacking in my life.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life And Death, Has Beens

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

  Duncan Sheik

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Practice

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• Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

  Pericles

  Ideas, Clarity, Lacking Something

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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Logic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• 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

  Strong, Team, Inspirational Soccer

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• 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

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

  George Muller

  Prayer, Mistake, Heart

  George Muller (2015). “Answers to Prayer”, p.1, Letcetera Publishing

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• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

  Christopher Meloni

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  Beau Bridges

  Native American, Epic, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Men, Feelings, Evolution

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

  Knut Hamsun

  Important, Matter, Today

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

  Jerry Lawler

  Thinking, Years, Horny

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