Lack Quotes - page 4

The lack of money is the root of all evil. (Mark Twain)
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? View quote
Frank Herbert
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. View quote
Charles Cooley
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. View quote
John Boyd Orr
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. (Joyce Meyer)
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. View quote
William Weld
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. View quote
Bo Bennett
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. View quote
Billy Graham
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive. View quote
Patty Duke
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. View quote
Dick Schaap
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring. View quote
Fernando Flores
I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. (Heston Blumenthal)
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. View quote
Wietse Venema
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. View quote
Peter Agre
Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. View quote
Pythagoras