Quotes About Lacking

Yeah, I got the instructions straight from Seoras. That and a bunch of smart-ass comments about my education being sadly lacking and something about not knowing my arse from my ear or my elbow, and also something about me being a fanny, and I don't know what the hell that means. Fanny? Like a girl's name? I don't think so . . .

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

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

apparently there are some holes in it. It's like an incomplete deck of cards –

We may find that we're habitually focused on incompleteness. We have thoughts such as "I am unworthy, I am lacking, the world is nothing but problems." With this outlook, we will see imperfection wherever we look and always feel dissatisfied.

Henry is a man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

Academic time moves quickly. A college year is not really a year, lacking as it does three months. And it is endlessly divided into units which, at their beginning, appear larger than they are — terms, half terms, months, weeks. And the ultimate unit, the hour, is not really an hour, lacking as it does ten minutes.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"

It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet.

He pegged criminals as impulsive, immature, deprived of affection, and lacking in restraint, all qualities that later studies bore out.

You're a few fries short of being a happy meal.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.

In fact, Kote himself seemed rather sickly. Not exactly unhealthy, but hollow. Wan. Like a plant that's been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.