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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking.
We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.
Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
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.
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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.
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely 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.
Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking.
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.
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they'll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want.
My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.
Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.
I'm not a naturally funny person, and I also can't dance, so I feel like I'm lacking the key things that you need to make a good Tik Tok video.
I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our public media.
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.
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
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.
You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking the rest of year.