. . . unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, of which there is so much, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer because our political system lacks the will or the courage or the basic decency to enforce our laws or, still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyists for cash, I am not able to look the other way. And I won't look the other way.
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.
All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.
The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power. . . but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.