Lacking Quotations

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

On the mens side, we are still lacking depth. We have 16 guys. We will be solid out front, but we are still looking to fill some holes.

NDEP does not have the in house technical expertise for such a large complex site. ... Also expertise is lacking in regards to radiological, toxicological and community involvement.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

My house was traditional, very boxy and lacking architectural interest. I wanted it to be eclectic European,

Obviously, we need a little more confidence. We're lacking it at the moment.

One of the things that Californians have been lacking is a choice in their television provider. That is something that has been the result of a regulatory mechanism that's been in place since the 1960s. That's something that we are excited might be changing.

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. But I give Hillcrest a lot of credit they're a good team and have a lot of good players.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Right now, I think we're playing a team that's struggling and lacking confidence big time, and missing some guys. With the start we got it kind of made them feel like it was going to be a long night and we made sure we didn't let up on anything. We did a great job all night.

I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you're on Jonathan Ross' or Graham Norton's show, inevitably there's something to sell. And there's a live audience; you're sat between Cameron Diaz and Tinie Tempah - I don't really see it as 'me.' It would be odd if it was.

I don't feel that I ever got the chance to show my very best. I felt like I was lacking something. I don't think I showed my best.

If they get a technocrat and a skilled professional in the job as minister of justice and attorney general, we could see some real movement that's been lacking over the last several years.

If we have to be fully prepared, we need all the resources which we are lacking at the moment.

If we find them lacking in security for female staffers, action will be taken against them.

Let's display our determination that was lacking in Buenos Aires.

The plan lacks a clear statement of how Ford is going to get its labor and design costs in line with its Japanese competitors. Lacking that, Ford will not be able to offer vehicles that are competitive in price, quality and content.

She feels like she's lacking in confidence and speed, but I don't see any downfall in her play. I think she's as solid as ever.

She has truly been remarkable in every respect. She has restored the credibility we were lacking with the corporate community.

When he (Lloyd) came here as a freshman, he was lacking in upper body strength. As a result, he got pushed around by some of the bigger players he went up against at first. But he worked hard in the off-season, built himself up and has developed into a strong pivot player.

Many people, not only African-Americans but certainly African-Americans, were shocked, angered and focused by what they've seen since Katrina, ... And I think that's the one thing that clearly has been lacking in terms of the response to the neglect that's been happening in urban America for some time -- focus.

When I heard that the mayor had come forward with a new parking bill, I thought 'Ah-ha, now we get to experience creativity,'? You know this is the last year of the Williams administration, and this will be the combined ... eight years of experience. But I've got to say what's lacking here is something that's dynamic and creative and out of the box.

There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.

I forgive him. He's a young kid, searching for love. Something's lacking in his life.

I am confident that next January he will restore the judgment and responsibility that is sorely lacking today,

If, what is learned is not put into practice, the student is like a cow that does not yield milk; a fruit lacking in taste, a book bereft of wisdom.

I don't think we're ever lacking in confidence because of what we've done all season. Now we need to just get back there and cause some havoc again.

I felt pretty close to 100 percent today. I don't think I'm lacking anything skill wise, it's just my head. Sometimes I get a little nausea. I feel like I'm going to puke sometimes, but that might be because I'm out of shape.

Ian has a load of potential. This is really his first big scoring game for us. It came at a great time for us. He showed flashes of this before. Hopefully this is a beginning for him. Maybe he was lacking a little confidence, like our team was.

I am still lacking the wins against the ranked kids. There are a lot of opportunities to do that, though, in the Big Ten. I just have to keep wrestling like I have been.

I'm a taper. I'll usually watch how I can beat my defender, what my defender is lacking and what is he scared of.

What is clearly lacking is a nationwide system for comparative performance purposes, using standard formats.

He's a big, athletic player. In the first half we did alright against him. In the third quarter, we just didn't answer the call. But we are lacking in size.

He was too fresh. He was so rank the first part of the race and I was fighting him. It was just a case of him lacking experience, that's all.

Going by the test results it's showing that it's not doing the job. We knew math was lacking so we addressed that. We'd like to see to English now.

He came out immaculately attired in a well-dressed street suit and he tap-danced, ... As he danced, he told little jokes in between. He was so clean in his language and was lacking in any drawl, he just inspired me. I wanted to do that.

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice

Some people are so devoted to products from Apple Computer that they forget it's just a company, not your friend. So it may do things to protect its stockholders and ensure its profitability that won't match your expectations. To generalize the concept: Take the price of a new product. You may regard it as too expensive, lacking the features that you want. But Apple's financial and product people consider the costs of manufacturing, the profits they require to cover manufacturing and R&D expenses, including paychecks for the thousands of people who depend on the company for their livelihood, and produce a figure that satisfies their needs, even if you'd rather play $100 less. As for that feature you want, marketing may feel that the right number customers won't pay extra for it, that you might find it in a third party utility, and that, as they say, is that.

Reed Elsevier is an oil tanker that is surging ahead in the same direction that it has been going in for the past few years. It leaves the share price lacking any great dynamics to trade into.

Our main goal is not to raise fighters, it's to raise good citizens, and it seems to be working. The first step is to hook them, the second step is to give them things they've been lacking - a father figure, time management, discipline, break down the mold of what they've learned on the street. They see that doesn't matter to them anymore.

Supplies are ample and stockpiles are rising. We're still lacking spare production capacity but the market is fairly happy that there's a good buffer in place in the form of inventories.

I see a lot of good opportunities there. They're not lacking like some people might think.

I was a little disappointed with the way we finished the game. We have become a team lacking a killer instinct.

I think what got us done earlier in the season was more of the mental approach. That was something we were lacking in. Last weekend we were much better with our mental approach.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

I think there are elements I'll be lacking here. My route running, I'll have to work on. Catching the football, I can catch the football. And my speed, I'll have to work on that, too.

James has shown an impressive degree of commitment to get back into the side and he is worth looking at again. He could maybe give us the consistency and penetration that was lacking in the C&G games.

Our intensity was lacking the last couple of games. At practice we talked about really focusing, moving the ball well and finishing.

Our goal today was to start with intensity from the first whistle, and play with intensity until the end. Basically our ground ball control was lacking intensity, and today we wanted to win ball control, ground ball control and play with intensity. Today, we did that.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

I think the coaches at Missouri felt like a happier player is a better player and that's why they let Calcius talk to us. The D-line is an area where we are really lacking depth, so he could jump in there right away. He's bigger and stronger than he was when he left Texas a year ago and we've been very impressed with him so far.

I think we're lacking news generally today. There hasn't been any fresh news for investors today. Equities have had a good run recently...(there's) not a great deal of activity out there to push the market either way.

I think there is a horrible stereotype that suggests that minorities are lacking in terms of their knowledge of the fundamentals of baseball.

Our cities are lacking areas like that. Cars and people don't mix there's no way flesh and blood can match all that steel.

Outsourcing is in wide use today, but it is not a magic wand. You get what you pay for in the trade-off between price and quality, but the real costs of outsourcing are often below the line. This is forcing the industry to undergo a fundamental shift towards stronger project management skills, which have been lacking in many organizations.

I think that's what we've been lacking from a defensive standpoint. We've got a lot of young players, especially in the secondary who made some big plays and we need to keep that going.

It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.

We came out lacking concentration. In the second half, however, we raised our game and we played beautiful basketball. Let's hope we can do the same thing against Germany.

We came out lacking intensity and made some fielding errors early, but we bounced right back and took the lead with some key hits.

The problem of Americans lacking health insurance is worsening. Two years ago, there were 43 million uninsured. Now there are 46 million.

Unfortunately, school systems are more often concerned with how their retention numbers look instead of whether these children can read well enough to succeed. Consequently, schools have found loopholes in the law, and legislators need to plug those holes. Nothing does a child a greater disservice than promoting him when he is lacking the basic skills to succeed.

We have a new story to tell convention planners. Big meetings have always come to Atlanta because it's an easy city to get to and has the infrastructure to hold them. Where we were lacking was in terms of, 'What do I do when I get out of the meeting?' Now we have more to offer.

We're really lacking a comprehensive plan that guides us.

We have built new cars and improved on the performance of our engines, and we still seem to be lacking somewhere, ... We need answers on how to get better so we decided to put someone else in the car to get feedback from his perspective and go from there.

The ability to determine what constitutes risk, and the requirement to report that risk to executive decision makers, can be a highly political activity requiring excellent written and oral communication skills with a good knowledge of business. Generally, these skills have been lacking in traditional technically-oriented information security specialists,

You can get everything and the kitchen sink here. We are never lacking materials. Sometimes we have to turn things down because we're overstocked.

We had excellent pitching in every game. Michelle was really throwing hard down there and just blowing the ball past people. Elizabeth has such great location and so much experience, she just knows how to handle the situation. Brooke came in and did a nice job for us several times. About the only thing she was lacking was maturity, but she did very well and gave us a dependable extra arm when we needed it.

What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.

We needed to get angry. We weren't playing well the last two games, and at times we were lacking enthusiasm. But we knew the truth about us and that we would could come out and play good defense and win.

We needed to improve on our situational hitting, which has been lacking of late, ... We were able to do that tonight.

We have a ton of underclassmen. We're not lacking so much in talent by any means. But with the inexperience, it's going to take them half the season to figure out how it works.

We have a very young bunch and we're lacking depth in just about every position, ... But, regardless we go out every game and look for ways to win. This week will be no exception.