Lack Quotes

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.