Lack Quotes

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.