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

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist. — Ted Orland

If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him keep asking God, for he gives generously to all and without reproaching, and it will be given him. — Anonymous

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

Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking. — Donita K. Paul

Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most. — Anthony Liccione

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

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look. — Nel Noddings

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

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

Time is lacking for me
Space is enough for me
The void attracts me — Edouard Leve

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song. — John Updike

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

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

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

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

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

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. — Duncan Sheik

In poetry if the emotion is lacking, everything is lacking. — Marty Rubin

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — C. G. Jung

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

Being judged and found lacking by the people who were supposed to love you never left anyone feeling all right. — Mariana Zapata

Only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation. — Marianne Williamson

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

Is not everything that we consider important our betrayer ? It shows where our motives lie, and where our motives are altogether lacking. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. — Thomas Sowell

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

Having the mind-set that you've got it together and everyone else is lacking is a fast track to being a grace failure. — Caleb Kaltenbach

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

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

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. — Henry Cisneros

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. — Margaret Atwood

If you are stuck in the idea that you need to be perfect, you are definitely lacking in self-love. — Jonathan Bello

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities. — George F. Will

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking. — Beth Hoffman

We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

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

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. — Leon Redbone

Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence. — Pearl Zhu

Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty. — J. Sidna Allen

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

So, why are so many people lacking in an understanding of the rules? No one has ever taught them! — John J. Daly Jr.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers ... — Gabriel Marcel

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

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. — Oren Moverman

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants. — Joan Wolf

I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood. — Arnold Bennett

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. — Jon Ronson

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

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

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone. — Dale Mayer

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. — Nicole Holofcener

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived. — Anthony Liccione

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. — Robert McKee

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking. — Dacia Maraini

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. — Willie Aames

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. — Scott Ritter

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison. — Sorin Suciu

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things. — Eric Dane

Judging the intellect of others where comprehension is lacking, is like a mutt judging the groom of Best in Show. — S.P. Mount

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. — T.H. White

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. — Aristotle.

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation — Marianne Williamson

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. — Wendell Berry

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. — Criss Jami

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. — S.A. Tawks

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. — Christopher Smart

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

For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon) — Aristotle.

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking
God warn us!
matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. — William Shakespeare

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey

A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand. — Anthony Liccione

Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking. — Titus Lucretius Carus

We are so good at treating the symptoms and so lacking in curing the disease. — James L. Rubart

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. — Saint Augustine

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. — Jamel Shabazz

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom. — Dorien Kelly

hated the British business culture which I saw as slow, bureaucratic, cumbersome, lacking customer service, lacking initiatives. — Elisabeth Marx

She was not undead, mind you; she was a living, breathing human but was simply ... lacking. — Gail Carriger

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. — Julian Barnes

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. — Ryan Kwanten