Top 1200 Lacking Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

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

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

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

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

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

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

You're gonna get helped, if you're lacking it, in any way, because everybody's objective is to make a good picture.

Oftentimes you're breaking out because your face is lacking moisture or hydration.

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

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.

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

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

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

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

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

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.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

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.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

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

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

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

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

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

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

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.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.