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They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills. — Salman Rushdie

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? — Ben Marcus

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy. — Laurence J. Peter

Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out — Nicholas Sparks

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. — Hedda Hopper

I lacked whatever version of radar was for players. Playdar--yeah, I was definitely missing playdar. — Cindi Madsen

The father, Trevor, was an asthmatic, but what he lacked in being able to breath quietly, he more than made up for with parental skills. — Alan Partridge

And that said it all. Whitney, Nia, and I only lacked a blood connection. Born in the same year, in the Gemini month, and only days apart, plus — L.J. Charles

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long. — Larry McMurtry

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I'm heaven's landscape painter. — Bauvard

He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked. — Umberto Eco

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked — Kat Howard

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence. — Dan Jones

Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership. — Larry McMurtry

A killing was exactly what he didn't want to make because to make a killing you had to kill, and he lacked the killer instinct. — Margaret Atwood

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence. — Denton Cooley

It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.
'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness. — Patrick Ness

Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways. — Brandon Mull

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Indeed the one thing the day lacked was a doom-laden prophecy. Perhaps you'd care to come in? — Andrea K. Host

Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

God is inseparably linked to the coming of Pentecost. In a certain sense, Jesus lacked the authority to dispatch the Spirit prior to His ascension. — R.C. Sproul

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness. — Elizabeth Goudge

Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked. — Tosca Lee

Everything I had so far experienced was mere chance ... my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own — Hermann Hesse

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. — Charles Bukowski

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you — Karuho Shiina

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker. — Margaret Beckett

When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom. — Frederick Lenz

He was a consummate politician
which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine. — Nick Taylor

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion. — Oscar Levant

So what. I'd make up whatever I lacked in other ways. Quickly. Fast, fast. Gimme my cake. It was time to fuck. — Amanda Boyden

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love. — Yanni

Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within. — Joan Slonczewski

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. — Gabrielle Union

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers. — Nelson Johnson

Everything was neat and organized, and I wondered if I surrounded myself with people who had that quality because I lacked it myself. — Liliana Hart

Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked. — Salman Rushdie

What he lacked in experience, he made up for in enthusiasm and the sweetness of innocence. — Nick Wilgus

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. — Gillian Flynn

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. — Nora Roberts

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect. — Megan Hart

Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings. — Lyndsay Faye

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. — Saul Bellow

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen. — Amanda Eliasch

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. — Audrey Niffenegger

I was slight in frame and lacked the instant authoritarian standing that a Winchester did. — Jon Bassoff

It's the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places. — Michael Cunningham

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her. — Paul Russell

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. — Pat Conroy

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. — Clay Aiken

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up. — Mick Taylor

Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves. — MacDonald Harris

I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort. — Kiera Cass

For all that, she lacked your fire. — Patrick Rothfuss

- for it was not so much that she lacked courage, but lacked energy, especially in talking to men. — Virginia Woolf

Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. — George Orwell

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment. — Ronnie Musgrove

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully. — Ron Chernow

Granny said tardiness was nothing but bad manners, and that people with bad manners lacked character. Erlene — Scott Pratt

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips

My childhood lacked affection and ambience. — Jacqueline De Ribes

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. — Umberto Eco

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul. — Helen Thomas

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities ... like the ability to behave myself. — J.K. Rowling

What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision. — Henri Bergson

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something
like, say, organization ... — Richelle Mead

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles De Lint

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II

rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why — Walter Isaacson

John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message. — David Letterman

He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. — George R R Martin

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day. — Miriam Karmel

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. — Gerry Adams

She was remorseless, but she lacked method. — Diana Wynne Jones

We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen. — Joshua Ferris

He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering. — Liu Cixin

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare
the first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. — Georg Brandes

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to. — Laozi

In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision. — Jared Spool

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire — Eduardo Galeano

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original. — Nicole Krauss

Orders were often given by those who lacked imagination. — Larry Correia

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no. — Alexander McCall Smith

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. — Anne Bronte

Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else. — Dean Koontz

Step One: Grab Mattie. Step Two: Run. It wasn't much of a plan. But what it lacked in potential it made up for in simplicity. — Ted Rabinowitz