Lack Quotes

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

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.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.