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Quotes About Deficiency

It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
~ Ted Dekker
It's not about how women are deficient. It's more about how men are deficient. Our social deficiencies, lack of perspective, or whatever you want to call it, is what enables us to study one species of dragonfly for twenty years, or sit in front of a computer for a hundred hours a week writing code. This is not the behavior of a well-balanced and healthy person, but it can obviously lead to great advances in synthetic fibers. Or whatever.
~ Neal Stephenson
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
In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly derived from our own desire to escape from or survive death. This critique of wish-thinking is strong and unanswerable
~ Christopher Hitchens
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
~ Victor Hugo
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
~ ladd george trumbull
Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising, ' he means 'morally deficient. '" "No, I mean enterprising, " said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done.
~ Cassandra Clare
When Yang is deficient there is external Cold, when Yin is deficient there is internal Heat, when Yang is in Excess there is external Heat, when Yin is in Excess there is internal Cold.
~ Giovanni Maciocia
The once proud PLA realizes that it is short of everything that it takes to win a modern war.
~ Gordon G. Chang
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
~ Anais Nin
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The act that anything evil puts forth is due to the strength of goodness, but a deficient goodness. For if there were nothing of good there, neither would there be any being, nor any action: again, if the goodness were not deficient, neither would there be any evil.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It's no fun when you lose.
~ Archie Manning
Mohammad, left a lot to be desired.
~ Clive Cussler
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
~ Greg Proops
La debilidad fundadora de todas las otras debilidades del Estado mexicano es su penuria fiscal.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
Without thiamine, feeding the men could trigger Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a nerve disorder
~ Hector Tobar
is one plank short of a bridge" (le falta un palo para el puente
~ Hector Tobar
Joe said, "The words for these crimes are just inadequate.
~ James Patterson
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
~ Anatoly Karpov
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
~ D. H. Lawrence
It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I
~ Lawana Blackwell
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
~ James Thurber