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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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