#lacking

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #completely #i #i see #lacking

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#art #art form #families #form #just

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#even #lacking #makes #think #unbearable

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

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

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

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#feared #join #lacking #loved #must

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage