Quotes About Lacking

I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

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

We invented the concept 'purpose': in reality purpose is lacking.…

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

Happy are they who are found wanting.

Your personality may be comparing your new potential reality to the one you are living and find something lacking.

The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love.

My disappointments, instead of converging toward a center and constituting if not a system at least an ensemble, are scattered, each supposed itself unique and thereby wasted, lacking organization.

You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.

Perhaps you have had more friends than you are aware of. You owe something to the man, for instance, who, with his outspoken antagonism, roused you first to a sense of what was lacking to you. I hope I shall be grateful to God for it some day, returned Wingfold. I cannot say that I feel much obligation to Mr. Bascombe. And yet when I think of it,—perhaps—I don't know—what ought a man to be more grateful for than honesty?

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

We can expect commercial enterprises to attempt whatever lawful ruses they can pull off. It is up to society, represented by government, to stop them, through the kind of regulation that has so far been lacking.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

One thing Henry found especially lacking were my descriptions of death. "They read like a eunuch writing about an orgy" is how he put it.

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

I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

relationship. Anyone who resented us being together could tattle on us. The world is never lacking in defenders of morality

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.