Top 100 Quotes About Lacks
#1. There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
Ruth J. Simmons
#2. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.
Thucydides
#4. They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul.
Mark Helprin
#5. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.
Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus
#6. The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.
Lao-Tzu
#7. He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian
#8. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Walter Lippmann
#9. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?
Frederick Lenz
#10. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#11. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
#12. This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.
Reks
#13. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .
Colin Farrell
#14. A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love.
Camillo Berneri
#15. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?
Reza Aslan
#16. Henrietta's were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.
Rebecca Skloot
#17. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.
Oscar Wilde
#18. Cruelty lacks pleasure when it's directed at you, doesn't it?
Sarah MacLean
#19. Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.
Bryant McGill
#20. Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.
Joseph J. Romm
#21. I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
Vinnie Vincent
#22. Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
Graeme Le Saux
#23. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
Barbara Damrosch
#25. I'll draw up a list. [ ... ] You can give me a general idea, if you like: hair color, eye color-"
"None!"
"None? Bit of a tall order, there, Gwen. Aristocracy lacks for albinos.
Meredith Duran
#26. Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
William Shakespeare
#27. philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art
Friedrich Schlegel
#28. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
E.W. Howe
#29. However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.
Joshua Dressler
#30. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#31. Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life, its purposes, and the happiness and well-being of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#32. We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after # death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of # dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#33. Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
Joanna Newsom
#34. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#35. That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.
Charles Baudelaire
#36. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
Dante Alighieri
#37. Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).
Oliver Sacks
#38. Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
Watchman Nee
#39. What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.
Karl Donitz
#41. Complacency and ignorance," Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. "A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion." "But
Anne McCaffrey
#42. He's an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I've slept with.
Lila Shaw
#43. My house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one ...
Marcel Proust
#44. I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
John McAfee
#45. Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on
Kevin Kelly
#46. C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.
Erik Naggum
#47. The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#48. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.
Erin Kellison
#49. Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.
Christopher Alexander
#50. Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
Laurence Boldt
#51. The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
Frederick Lenz
#52. A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
Marcel Proust
#53. A man who eats his words is a man who lacks what it takes to speak his piece in this day and age, and in time to come.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#54. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#55. Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.
Phillip Adams
#56. Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.
Stephen Jay Gould
#57. Poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it - what roseate-coloured fancies! To the curtain, however, I had never given a thought. The fact is that when I moved the flower-pots, it LOOPED ITSELF up. There now!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#58. A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.
Isabel Allende
#59. Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#60. None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.
Donald Evans
#61. I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
Helen Thomas
#62. Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.
William Blake
#63. Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time ... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
Stonewall Jackson
#64. The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
Orison Swett Marden
#65. One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe.
Erich Fromm
#66. The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.
Brett Finch
#67. No, what's a man like down there?"
"Oh." Sidheag wrinkled her nose. "Unimpressive. They have - "she gestured towards her own nether regions with one hand - "a sort of dangly sausage - lacks tailoring."
"Really?"
"Yes, like it wasn't fitted into its casing properly. And hairy.
Gail Carriger
#68. Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
John Henry Jowett
#69. California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
Parker Stevenson
#70. You can get some sense of the immaterial quality of clouds by strolling through fog - which is, after all, nothing more than a cloud that lacks the will to fly.
Bill Bryson
#71. What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
Emile M. Cioran
#73. Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.
Philip K. Dick
#74. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
#75. To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ...
Flannery O'Connor
#76. The world now lacks a " Sir Pom-pom", with all his funny ways! I wonder where he is now? Or is he anywhere at all? Can someone be nowhere?
Jack Vance
#77. I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.
Romesh Wadhwani
#78. Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera
#79. My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.
Neale Donald Walsch
#80. What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.
Jim McGrath
#81. Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
Richard M. Nixon
#82. Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Edith Stein
#83. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.
Robin Hobb
#84. Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Octavio Paz
#85. No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
J. Lawton Collins
#86. But today when people talk about the history of Hopkins's relationship with the black community, the story many of them hold up as the worst offense is that of Henrietta Lacks - a black woman whose body, they say, was exploited by white scientists.
Rebecca Skloot
#87. The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
Emile Durkheim
#88. Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
Sam Kean
#89. It's too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.
Omar Khayyam
#90. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard
#91. She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Anais Nin
#92. The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.
Steve Allen
#94. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
Merrill Markoe
#95. Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.
Paul Johnson
#96. Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
Rebecca Skloot
#97. I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.
Anne Geddes
#98. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer
#99. She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so much determined to embrace everything that she fails.
Virginia Woolf
#100. His dream is to one day be a famous Broadway star, but he says he lacks the ability to sing or act, so he's scaling down his dream and applying to business school, instead.
Colleen Hoover
