Quotes About Lack

Thus angel embodies neatly the idea that "the muscular body functions as a powerful symbol of desire and lack." Angel is manly but not a man, and his display of masculinity points to the ambivalences that surround gender.

Individuals had never much cared what had happened in the past, or would happen in the future, or how much others of their kind suffered or lacked. They did not care how many others died providing they lived. And government, to those who did not govern, had been largely a matter of indifference unless it happened to have a detrimental effect on the lives of individuals. Then, maybe, if the individuals had felt strongly enough, they had held protests, gone on strike, or started revolutions.

In God's eyes, partial or selective obedience is the same as rebellion to His authority. It is the evidence of a lack of the fear of God!

Even the furniture made the most of the lack of supervision to move about.

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Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

Second, it invites the response, "Sorry, but I don't have a need.

Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you'll fall for someone brainy. If you feel ugly, you'll flip your lid for someone who's easy on the eyes.

The ego thought system is based not only on guilt, but on lack. The scarecrow thinks he needs a brain, the tin man thinks he needs a heart, and the lion thinks he lacks courage. We are taught we have to earn everything here, or that it has to be bestowed upon us by someone worthier or better than we are. We suffer and sacrifice ourselves in order to be worthy of God's love. Does this feel right to you?

We came to the conclusion that they left you here because any decision can be analysed, and that their lack of decision indicated the only thing they wanted us to know, which is that we must know nothing.

Pada bahasa terdapat unsur ketaksadaran. Dalam ketidaksadaran inilah terdapat hasrat, dan hasarat manusia adalah hasrat akan yang lain. Yang simbolik ini ditandai dengan adanya kekurangan. Oleh karena adanya kekurangan inilah, maka manusia menghasrati sesuatu.

Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn't even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. If someone were to prove to me—right this minute—that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

I do know that in every direction I find a growing discontent with the President's lack of leadership," Ickes wrote in his diary. "He still has the country if he will take it and lead it. But he won't have it very much longer unless he does something.

Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we're already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds race with a litany of what we didn't get, or didn't get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack.

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world.

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving—Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.