Lack Quotes - page 3

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. (George Reisman)
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. View quote
Michael Chabon
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. View quote
David Suzuki
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. View quote
Helen Keller
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. (William Butler Yeats)
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. View quote
Plutarch
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. View quote
Jean-François Revel
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. View quote
Confucius
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? View quote
Frank Moore Colby
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. View quote
Joseph Joubert
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. View quote
Vince Lombardi
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. (Alfred Jodl)
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. View quote
Eric Hoffer
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley