Lacking Quotes

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. (Carl Jung)
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations. View quote
Vitruvius
The further through life I drift; The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. View quote
Ogden Nash
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Life and death have been lacking in my life. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. View quote
Keith Henson
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. View quote
Shelley Berman
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. (Rollo May)
Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will.... We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. View quote
Robert Mugabe
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist.A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation. View quote
Juan Gris
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens, to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. View quote
Albert Bandura
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. View quote
Ai Weiwei
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. View quote
Lope de Vega
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community. (Samuel P. Huntington)
Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. View quote
Roger Ebert
Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. View quote
Roger Ebert
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. View quote
Benito Mussolini