Lacking Quotes

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Yauch was great at lacking fear.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.