A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.
Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think that discomfort, that dislocation, disintegration - that raw lack of feeling whole - that dysmorphia - is a very good place, in this moment, to hunt for the kind of experience which really requires the means of poetry to be grasped or felt.
One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.
I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success
I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?
Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.
. . . in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other. . . People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.