#lacking

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#buddhist #i #inspiration #lacking #never

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #completely #cosmic #discoveries #had

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#allows #audience #conveys #epic #films

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#acknowledged #being #clearly #fitness #force

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. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#fiction #internet #michelle-pillow #procrastinate #procrastination

Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#everyone #everything #lacking #lost #missing

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. ↗

— Jim Goad

#essential #lacking #likeable #makes #obviously

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#baghdad #been #debate #facilitate #goal