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“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.”

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)

“You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.”

Said Problem Sex Quality Fruit Pairs Factories Bores Rejected Considering Lacking Shorts

Author:Paul Zindel

“Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.”

Love Is Leader And Love Lacking

Author:Shakira

“If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.”

Ifs Want Needs Personality Sells Judged Physicians Lacking Salesman Waitress

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”

Doe Self Matter Ability Importance Threat Following Deny Self Control Lacking Small Things Trifles

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Nations Lacking

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.”

Humans Children Reason Born Dark Hell Forever Our Lives Sky Goes On Cold Bears Bounds Heavy Fats Smoke Lacking Oblivion Event Horizon Suffocating

Author:Alan Moore

“The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.”

Ifs Mind Past Causes Cities Enemy Influence Conditions Illness Trauma London Assumption Destructive Rome Organs Lacking Tissues Visitation

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.”

World Profound Lacking

Author:Frithjof Schuon

“In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.”

Values Reading Moral Ethics Angry Feminist Circles Academic Lacking Feeding

Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.”

World Persons Young Used Girl Language Written Visuals Aggression Lacking Blogs

Author:Jenny Hval

“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”

Thinking Enough Beautiful Desire Wise Ignorance Ignorant Good Enough Lacking Love Wisdom

Author:Plato

“In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.”

People Self Today House Car Lifestyle Self Worth Wealthy Permit Lacking Impress Select Sense Of Self Monetary Purchasing Residence Monetary System Purchasing Power

Author:Jacque Fresco

“If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Acting Unhappy Enthusiasm Courageous Lacking Enthusiastic

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation.”

May Care Divine Sweet Crosses Providence Lacking Consolation Very Sweet Divine Providence

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.”

“Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.”

Reason Born Praying Anxiety Prosperity Leisure Lacking Succession Wretchedness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.”

Men Giving Mind Answers Views Fool Bears Absolutes Careful Lacking Consistency Distrust Examination

Book:St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

“In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.”

Ifs Stills Enough Character Stories Might Audience Effects Theater Visuals Lacking Visual Effects

Author:Doug Liman

“Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking”

Ifs Knows Children Doe Motivation Opportunity Capable Assuming Sufficient Reasonable Acquire Lacking Sequence Redundant

Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner

“Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.”

Mind Culture Names Path Middle Concepts Opposites Fundamentals Unions Western Chinese Inward Lacking Tao Items Middle Path

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“I don't discuss women at all with anyone. There are good qualities in all women. Some may be lacking in some of these qualities and should have them. I'm liable to say so and hurt their feelings, and it wouldn't be meant that way at all.”

Way Should May Feelings Hurt Quality Should Have Lacking Liable Good Quality

Author:Clark Gable

“When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.”

Feels Intimate Divinity Within You Lacking Lacking Something

Author:Aristotle

“Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.”

Whole Understanding Lacking

Author:Richard Wagner

“I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.”

Thinking Long Doe Country Jobs Moving Term Approach Long Time Training Priorities Moving Forward Budgets Discussion Chairs Balanced Lacking Right Place Job Training

Author:Patty Murray

“Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the [Frankenweenie] junket and everyone started asking about it again. Preacher could be filmed, at any point. It's sort of ready to go, but it's lacking a green light. At some point, that green light might come, but it may never come. So, I have to allow for the fact that I've done everything I can, and whatever happens with it, happens with it.”

May I Can Done Facts Light Might Happens Ready Asking Green Presses Notes Frustration Preacher Lacking Whatever Happens Green Lights

Author:John August

“Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.”

Soul Today Stuff Difficult Interest Music Is Entertainment Corporate Substance Corporations Lacking Packages

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.”

Ifs Eye Process Goal Lines Sun Study Structure Lacking Arrested Beam Daylight Excluded Completeness True Knowledge Cones Apex

Author:Robert Dabney

“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.”

“When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.”

Want Needs Seems Kids Form Common Audience Comedian Lacking Validation Common Denominator

Author:Ray Romano

“I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.”

People Thinking Sleep Understood Lacking Judgmental

Author:Gemma Arterton

“Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have a vital need for time and inner quiet to ponder and examine life and its mysteries... Understanding and wisdom are the fruit of a contemplative eye upon the world, and do not come from a mere accumulation of facts, no matter how interesting.”

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

Men Should Humans Persons Philosophy Whole Born My Own Race Millions Details Every Man Human Race Lacking

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.”

“To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.”

“A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.”

Soul Spirit Bits Sound Incredibles Lacking Solo Fiery Soulless Spirit And Soul

Author:Jeff Beck

“When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.”

Men Government Chance Quality Corruption Tyranny Lacking Entering Scrutiny

Author:Jacob K. Javits

“Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.”

People Way Trying States Understanding Term Consciousness Ordinary Rational Explanation Logical Lacking States Of Consciousness

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.”

Thinking Feels Trying Sometimes Our Lives Drug Lacking Wrong Things Lacking Something

Author:Stacie Orrico

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.”

Three Stupid Stupidity Selfish Lacking Requirements Good Health People Stupidity

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.”

Thinking Knows Children Christian Community Roles Models Role Models Lacking Christian Community

Author:Willie Aames

“Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.”

Men Character Strong Nations Sound Moral Principles Greatness Evidence Foundation Firm Lasting Lacking Moral Principles Firm Foundation

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.”

Knows Firsts Able Order Know How Sells Income Owners Lacking Reluctant

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.”

People Thinking Want Feels Book Novel Media Television Originals Hungry Mediums Comic Originality Lacking Comic Book Want Something Graphic Remakes Graphic Novels

Author:Miles Millar

“The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.”

People Ifs World Persons I Can Understanding Conditions Admire Humanist Lacking Negotiation

Author:Claudia Rankine

“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Thinking World Wells May Art Stills Seems Eye Moral Progress Poet Conversation Intellectual Function Engaged Lacking Avoided Lingering Regression Here We Go Again

Author:Fady Joudah

“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.”

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