Lack Quotes

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

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.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

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.