Quotes of: Lack Keyword

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

1984

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Afterwards

He is fascinated by their lack of conventional hierarchy or structure and loves how the forces of capital have subverted plans to control and order space.

Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?

The Immortal Game

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

Killosophy

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

Summer and the City

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

The Mapmaker and the Ghost

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

The Mason Dixon Line

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

One Man Caravan

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Lady Oracle

God gave us the access, but we need to exercise courage to have it. No one lacks the access, but it’s only few that have the courage to grab it!

Leaders' Watchwords

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Master and Commander

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

Tuesday's Child

Neither my sexuality or my efforts or lack of effort on the football field make up the whole sum of me.

Tigers and Devils

I don’t have any upper body strength, but that matches up perfectly with my lack of lower body strength.

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