Top 100 Lack Of Quotes
#1. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#2. The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person.
Paul Isaacs
#3. Undeterred by his lack of enthusiasm, she leaned forward, flashing him a set of breasts that didn't so much defy gravity as flip it off, insult its mother, and piss on its shoes.
J.R. Ward
#4. Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.
Emma Watson
#5. I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
Jo Brand
#6. One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
Bruce Sterling
#7. I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
Gloria Steinem
#8. More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Billy Sunday
#9. Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I couldn't believe that lack of fear. It gave me vertigo, as though he was the edge of a cliff and I
couldn't bear the view.
Alexis Hall
#11. It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.
Tito Colliander
#12. You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.
Virginia Woolf
#13. What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Terence McKenna
#14. The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.
David Edelstein
#15. Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
Adrian Rogers
#16. Just because the world is falling apart around me is no excuse for a lack of professionalism.
Evan Currie
#17. I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.
Laura Benanti
#18. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).
Gloria Furman
#19. Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
Francis Chan
#20. To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.
K Callan
#21. The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.
M.E. Thomas
#23. They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
Romain Gary
#24. Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what's desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.
Fernando Pessoa
#25. Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
Clifford D. Simak
#26. I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
Candace Bushnell
#27. Being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.
Jan Frazier
#28. Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
Carl Jung
#29. In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?
Marilynne Robinson
#30. The Lack of perseverance and effort isn't called Destiny !
Shahryar Barani
#31. I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.
Chris Eigeman
#32. More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#33. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
Stefan Molyneux
#34. Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.
Lama Surya Das
#35. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.
Jonathan Gruber
#36. Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
Dalai Lama
#37. If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.
Terry Crisp
#39. As much as Jason hated the man, it was plain to see how Sloan had built the empire he had. Perseverance, dedication and hard work. Along with an appalling lack of ethics and a healthy does of gray magic.
Kristen Painter
#40. Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor E. Frankl
#41. Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
Surya Das
#42. The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#43. I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Henry Addington
#44. Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.
Jim Rohn
#45. The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.
Patricia Briggs
#46. I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
Rufus Sewell
#47. When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#48. What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.
Rachel Moran
#49. She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.
Truman Capote
#50. Things are often more meaningful when they come out of natural need. You don't think about the beating of your heart until things go amiss. And there aren't many things much sweeter than breath after the lack of it.
David Crowder
#51. It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
#52. Ince depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.
Peter McWilliams
#53. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. There's
Margaret Atwood
#54. I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community.
Peter T. King
#55. There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
Colin Farrell
#56. A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose
Charles Williams
#57. One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
Stuart Bowen
#58. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#59. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.
Robert Greene
#60. We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.
Cory Booker
#61. The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
Malcolm X
#62. What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.
Peter Golenbock
#63. Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
Napoleon Hill
#64. One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.
Juan Enriquez
#65. The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective.
Tim Fargo
#66. It was hard to remember what I'd been so scared of. Being treated differently? Lack of acceptance? I was the one who hadn't accepted myself for who I was. I was the one who needed to be comfortable in my own skin. I hoped I could do that moving forward.
Kasie West
#67. This system of control depends far more on racial indifference (defined as a lack of compassion and caring about race and racial groups) than racial hostility - a feature it actually shares with its predecessors. All
Michelle Alexander
#68. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.
Ann Coulter
#69. Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#70. Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham
#71. When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#72. The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
Virginia Foxx
#73. The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
Moliere
#75. The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
Timothy Keller
#76. Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.
Blanche Ebbutt
#77. Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#78. Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.
Thomas Leonard
#79. Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.
Poppet
#80. Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.
Gina Greenlee
#81. I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'
He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.
Siri Hustvedt
#82. The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.
Melanne Verveer
#83. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
#84. I can't blame it. Its whole purpose is to prevent the atmosphere from becoming lethal. Nobody at NASA thought, "Hey, let's allow a fatal lack of oxygen that will make everyone drop dead!
Andy Weir
#85. Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.
Dennis E. Shasha
#86. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#87. It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Frank Beddor
#88. Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
Fred Upton
#89. The lack of short-term stress results in a lack of long-term health. When you always protect a human body from harm, you grow it to be fragile.
Jurgen Appelo
#90. What gets me, Varinka, is not really the lack of money but all those little troubles life is full of, all whispering, all those jeers and jokes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#91. Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it." (Ginger Susanoo, 2018).
Michael Rogers
#92. True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
Charles Colson
#93. One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
L. Tom Perry
#94. Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.
Debasish Mridha
#95. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#96. I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
Whitfield Diffie
#97. Where there is lack of faith, There is a lack of respect. Employ reticence, and care with words. When the work is done and the task complete The people will say: 'It just happened.
Lao-Tzu
#98. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#99. I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.
Linus Torvalds
#100. Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14
Richard Blackaby
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