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Quotes About Deficiency

Khabib is very tough, has phenomenal wrestling and sambo, but he has a huge deficiency on the feet so I can catch him. Nothing is impossible.
~ Patricio Freire
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
~ Aisha Tyler
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
~ Andrew Weil
The idea is that criminals are distinctive in psychological (perhaps even biological) ways. They are deficient, depending on the particular theory, in conscience or in self-restraint. They lack normal attachment to the mores of their culture, or they are peculiarly indifferent to the feelings or the good opinion of others. They
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
~ Victor Hugo
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
~ Francis Bacon
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
~ John Stuart Mill
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
~ Bliss Perry
are two types of the mentally deficient in this world. The first type mistake their lack of understanding for bold perception. This type of deficiency is often found in urologists and presidential candidates and is as dangerous as the plague.
~ William Lashner
In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
~ Socrates
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.
~ Harriet Martineau
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
~ Greg Proops
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
~ Alice James
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
Unknown to them, spring fever was in fact a vitamin deficiency, mostly likely scurvy, brought on by the winter diet. IN
~ Jane Ziegelman
Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must ensue; either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible mode of supplying the public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of time, perish.
~ Alexander Hamilton
In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.
~ Harry Triguboff
they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.
~ Richard Hofstadter
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Sus pretensiones, pues, son infundadas, porque el esfuerzo realizado no nos hace más competentes, sino menos; la ejecución, en términos generales, será deficiente, propensa al error y requerirá más tiempo del que hubieran exigido las tareas por separado.
~ Winifred Gallagher
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
~ Christopher Hitchens
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
~ James Thurber