#lacking

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#care #clothed #fed #given #go

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#fact #fully #lacking #lives #may

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#definite #had #ideas #lacking #many

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. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#failed #housing #i #lacking #little

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. ↗

— Michael Korda

#chase #confidence #day #describe #disaster

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

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

— Fred G. Gosman

#child #fantasized #having #imagination #lacking

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#guidance #kind #know #lacking #people

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#best #canadians #despite #difficult #either