Lacking Quotes - Page 10

• I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, Usa, Racism

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, World, Peculiar

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Crush, Catholic, Unity

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Ice Cream, Sorrow

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Men, Law

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• Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.

  William Mountford

  Suicide, Men, Jewels

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.136

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• Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin

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• Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

  Jane Roberts

  Afterlife, Personality, Doe

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• I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
  [Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

  Camilo Jose Cela

  Book, Soy, Reason

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• There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, America, People

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• In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.

  Mildred Cable

  Track, Everyday, Normal

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Voice, Stories

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes Talk Shopgirl". movieweb.com. October 21, 2005.

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

  Ovid

  Willingness, Commendable

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 3, no. 4, l. 79

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• When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

  Paul Ormerod

  Discipline, Economics, Criteria

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Cutting, Oneness

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.239, M A Center

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• When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Art, Character

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• Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will. We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Strong, Military

  "What Does Kim Jong Il’s Confession Imply?" by Yang Jung A, english.dailynk.com. January 11, 2010.

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• With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

  Michael Parenti

  Mass Destruction, Leader, Drug

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• Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

  Richard Carrier

  People, Decision, Atheism

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• There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

  Winston Churchill

  Army, Germany, Tables

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• Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beauty, Grace, Bait

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