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They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.
— Salman Rushdie
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
— Laurence J. Peter
Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out
— Nicholas Sparks
I lacked whatever version of radar was for players. Playdar--yeah, I was definitely missing playdar.
— Cindi Madsen
The father, Trevor, was an asthmatic, but what he lacked in being able to breath quietly, he more than made up for with parental skills.
— Alan Partridge
Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
— Larry McMurtry
Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.
— Larry McMurtry
A killing was exactly what he didn't want to make because to make a killing you had to kill, and he lacked the killer instinct.
— Margaret Atwood
It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness. — Patrick Ness
Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.
— Brandon Mull
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Indeed the one thing the day lacked was a doom-laden prophecy. Perhaps you'd care to come in?
— Andrea K. Host
Without training, they lacked knowledge.Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory. — Gaius Iulius Caesar
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Everything I had so far experienced was mere chance ... my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own
— Hermann Hesse
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
— Charles Bukowski
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you
— Karuho Shiina
One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.
— Margaret Beckett
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
— Frederick Lenz
He was a consummate politicianwhich is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine. — Nick Taylor
So what. I'd make up whatever I lacked in other ways. Quickly. Fast, fast. Gimme my cake. It was time to fuck.
— Amanda Boyden
Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.
— Joan Slonczewski
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
— Gabrielle Union
businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers.
— Nelson Johnson
Everything was neat and organized, and I wondered if I surrounded myself with people who had that quality because I lacked it myself.
— Liliana Hart
Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.
— Salman Rushdie
What he lacked in experience, he made up for in enthusiasm and the sweetness of innocence.
— Nick Wilgus
A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.
— Gillian Flynn
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
— Nora Roberts
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
— Saul Bellow
All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
— Amanda Eliasch
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against.
— Audrey Niffenegger
I was slight in frame and lacked the instant authoritarian standing that a Winchester did.
— Jon Bassoff
It's the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.
— Michael Cunningham
It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
— Pat Conroy
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
— Clay Aiken
Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
— MacDonald Harris
I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.
— Kiera Cass
For all that, she lacked your fire.
— Patrick Rothfuss
- for it was not so much that she lacked courage, but lacked energy, especially in talking to men.
— Virginia Woolf
In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.
— Ronnie Musgrove
Granny said tardiness was nothing but bad manners, and that people with bad manners lacked character. Erlene
— Scott Pratt
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
— Walter J. Phillips
My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
— Jacqueline De Ribes
To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.
— Helen Thomas
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities ... like the ability to behave myself.
— J.K. Rowling
What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.
— Henri Bergson
I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something like, say, organization ... — Richelle Mead
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
— Charles De Lint
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
— Queen Elizabeth II
rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why
— Walter Isaacson
John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.
— David Letterman
He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
— George R R Martin
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day.
— Miriam Karmel
She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
— Diana Wynne Jones
We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.
— Joshua Ferris
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to darethe first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
— Georg Brandes
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
— Eduardo Galeano
He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.
— Nicole Krauss
Orders were often given by those who lacked imagination.
— Larry Correia
Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.
— Alexander McCall Smith
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
— Anne Bronte
