Top 1200 Lacking Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

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

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

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.

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

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.

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

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

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

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

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 think what's perhaps lacking in Indian body builders is advanced knowledge of the sport. You'd be surprised to know that even the average European isn't really that aware about it either.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

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

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

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

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.

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

If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.

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?

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

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

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.

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

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.

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

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

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.

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.

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

Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.

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.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

When I feel jealous, I try to understand where it is coming from and how to better myself where I feel I am lacking.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.