Lack Quotes

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.