Lacking Quotes - Page 8

• What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nations

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Dark, Sky

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• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, Rome, Cities

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Profound, World

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• In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Reading, Circles, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

  Jenny Hval

  Girl, World, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

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• In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Worth, Car, People

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• If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Feelings, Unhappy, Acting

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

  Henry Vaughan

  Men, Darkness, Triumph

  George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Louis Lohr Martz (1986). “George Herbert and Henry Vaughan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Doe, Matter

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• If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

  Erich Fromm

  Personality, Physicians, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

  Ne-Yo

  Essence, Years, Gentleman

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• If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

  Freeman Dyson

  Reality, Imagination, Would Be

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

  Harry Partch

  Horse, Operations, Music Is

  Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sanity, Economic, Poor

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.270, Princeton University Press

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• You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Curiosity, Want, Hunger

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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• We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.

  Dave Barry

  Fashion, Revenge, Fall

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• Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Goal, Humanity

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• It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Riches, Sin

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1680, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

  Paul Zindel

  Sex, Quality, Pairs

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• Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.

  Shakira

  Love Is, Leader, And Love

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• Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

  Hannah Arendt

  Order, Giving, Facts

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