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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.

Mother Teresa

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Woody Allen

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

One thing this area is lacking is live entertainment. You have to go up valley. Hopefully this will create a trend.

Irene Massey

There is somewhat of a lack of communication because of the language barrier.

Stephane Henchoz

Frustration is simply the lack of a system. I find that if we keep it simple and focus on no more than three things, we handle things so much better.

Sue Shipman

There is no evidence that what we have here is a willful disregard of the rules. What we have is some cases of lack of attention to detail and some questions about the vagaries of classification rules.

Kevin Roark

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

I'm obligated to help those younger guys. Those guys with that lack of experience to try to bring them up and help them as much as possible.

Tommy Zbikowski

Violence within the family is a matter of power and lack of accountability.

Paul Greening

We had never gone into the championship game having that lack of pressure. This makes it a little bit better. Hopefully it will get us a top 16 seed. Our guys battled so hard. I can't be prouder for a group than those guys.

Alan Magnani

The administrative oversight that should have been in place was lacking. When you look at the specifics that are alleged, absolutely those failures occurred.

Mark Renner

We ran into a team that played really well tonight. It wasn't a lack of effort or not believing, but they just beat us tonight. They swung the bats better than we did.

Rick Heller

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

They're two of our fastest players. Since they've been out, we've had a lack of energy on the field.

Pam Bassler

This indicates that, despite the attention now paid to the lack of financial literacy, the problem is not about to resolve itself anytime soon.

Lewis Mandell

It would have been nice to play this game with a full complement of players. A lack of consistency in our lineup really hurt us.

John Danby

Disney is perhaps revealing a slight lack of confidence.

Anant Sundaram

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

That's not boxing out and (lack of) effort.

Reggie Bellamy

We came out lacking concentration. In the second half, however, we raised our game and we played beautiful basketball. Let's hope we can do the same thing against Germany.

Fran Vazquez

We've certainly heard stories where patients are ready to go home but there are a lack of appropriate community options.

David Sandman

Lack of democracy in Venezuela.

Julio Borges

The company does seem to be doing better already than it did any time it did during 2004, ... The lack of publicly available financials continues to be a hindrance, and that's not a trivial issue.

Jamie Friedman

If we have to be fully prepared, we need all the resources which we are lacking at the moment.

S.k.r. Amarasekara

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

We really just had a lack of aggressiveness tonight. Part of that was they played really smart defense.

Brian Menk

The thing that hurt us was lack of people. If we had numbers, it would have been a different match.

David Kerr

Teens and college-aged kids are the biggest purchasers of mobile content, yet they lack a way to protect their investments.

Gerry Purdy

It's a lack of responsibility for taking care of things you should be taking care of.

Heather Janik

If there had been a lack of urgency in some places before, that has come to an end. The important thing is that the right decision is made in each case.

Sharman Stein

It's a lack of concentration. It's not that we don't know how to do it, because we work on it all the time in practice. We just didn't concentrate enough in that area, and we didn't do our best (job) in that area.

Josh Duncan

If it was warm, there'd be more people out here and more girls flashing for beads. We'd have more guys buying the better beads. The lack of girls is really hurting business.

David Borden

There's a lack of clarity on what they decided. But they clearly went beyond the law.

Mark Forest

The broader point we're conveying is the immigrant community is important. What would be the impact if there were no immigrants? The state would not have enough workers. The state is already lacking in workers.

Ali Noorani

I believe that the Blade has shown a serious lack of dedication to journalistic ethics.

Michael Brooks

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. Mcgill

A lack of effort. That's the key, lack of effort at the end of the game. We need to stick with that energy the whole game.

Markel Humphrey

But more than a lack of guidance is a lack of communication, really.

Marla Backer

(We had) just a lack of focus from the beginning. That will kill you in any game.

Sean Kline

We're interested to see how she can do. We've been lacking in distance the last two years.

Shay Rice

The market continues to focus on the lack of yield in the euro-zone, keeping the euro on the defensive.

Charmaine Buskas

I think they're fed up (with the lack of service).

Joseph Cataldo

Investors are being asked to own a stock on more and more faith. There is a lack of clarity about the company's growth rate and a lack of vision on where they are going.

Angela Kohler

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Tom O'neill

It is a consequence of his lack of willingness to answer questions and work with his supervisor to get to the bottom of all of this.

Patrick Thompson

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

I think everyone was surprised at the lack of crowds. There was no one in the neighborhood.

Craig Montgomery

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches.

John Kirkwood

It wasn't for a lack of trying to get the ball inside.

Kraig Terpstra

All of these things are what foreign competitive institutions are good at and what Chinese institutions lack.

Stephen Green

We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the potential damages of this product.

George Abbott

There apparently was a lack of oxygen, which is usually the case when the cabin is de-pressurized.

Akrivos Tsolakis

The loss wasn't from lack of effort. The kids hustled all game.

Denny Brown

Since the calf doesn't breathe in the uterus, it is totally dependent on the oxygenated blood from the mother. It was the lack of oxygenated blood that caused the death.

Jeff Wyatt

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

Stuart Green

The thrust of our conversation was our mutual frustration with the lack of aggressiveness on the part of DOC.

Joe Sims

This is how you end up with contamination in the system - lax standards and a lack of enforcement.

Adrienne Esposito

Our lack of execution on offense created very quick transitions.

Jon Evans

And it's certainly not for the lack of effort on the part of researchers.

Alan Berube

It was good experience for our wrestlers, but with our lack of experience as a team, you really can't expect a whole lot.

Scott Cardwell

We lack a new generation of people to represent Chinese kung fu.

Fu Min

How important is it if the FBI discovers that there's -- for a lack of a better word -- the president's DNA on this dress?

Bob Schieffer

All we lack is a first rate Barnett Newman.

Louis Grachos

It keeps us from entertaining, and makes me a wreck. I hate the lack of control.

Pam Walters

Gordon Brown's lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete, and mean further tax rises for hard working families.

George Osborne

I think everyone knows we have more in us. We're real close, and some things are just communication things. We know it's not a lack of ability.

Fred Miller

The collapse of this deal reflects a complete lack of confidence in the governor's leadership abilities, among both Democrats and Republicans.

Nick Velasquez

It's not for lack of planning or lack of ideas.

Ben Cassarino

There is a lot of concern back home about the lack of free market floating of the currency.

Lindsay Graham

We have even proven to you that it was not 'planted,' for lack of a better term.

Marcia Clark

It's a clear reflection the lawsuit was lacking in merit in the first place.

Peter Stirba

That's pretty bad. That's not going to get it done. That's just a lack of focus.

Diana Taurasi

You would expect that with the lack of rainfall. It's pretty dry out there right now.

Dennis Moore

This is the result of a lack of an adequate system of controls.

Umberto Mosetti

I think development has been stifled for 40 years because of a lack of parking.

Justin Taylor

We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.

Ahmed Akkari

He's helped fill some holes. But a lack of playing time can also lead to a lack of confidence for him.

Judi Larkin

All the defense has to do is put on a sincere expert, or several sincere experts, that the jury likes. The government always has the burden of proof, and confusion and lack of clarity will only aid the defense.

Ross Albert

We do have an answering machine but we suffer from lack of a staff member.

Gail Davidson

The lack of ethanol is one of the problems, and geopolitical unrest is another.

Pam Maiolo

The lack of this communication for America's first responders has put them and put all of us -- all of our communities -- in danger.

Debbie Stabenow

We close just because of the lack of business. It's really been slow the last couple of nights.

Bryan Lewis

I believe what we may see is a minor pullback due to a lack of fresh catalysts now that the Fed has already said what they said.

Andre Bakhos

We are afraid the government's lack of urgency may result in a delay in anti-deflation measures it has said it would come up with by the end of this month.

Tokio Furuta

We offered more than ample evidence in my view of a lack of facilities. We would disagree with that portion of his finding.

Carl Epps

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

Don Juan Manuel

I think there is a lack of the well-rounded, and that's a problem.

Christine Bullen

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run.

David Woodruff

Engineers were kept in the dark about their syndicate's budget. Services were lacking, and general assemblies were banned. [We] were not allowed to question those in charge.

Mustafa Mahmoud

It was a lack of focus, a lack of effort on our part. And they exploited that.

Pat Garrity

With the lack of a goalkeeper and the lack of a center midfielder, we have no flow. If we do get the ball to our forwards, we have one or two against four or five defenders, so we don't stand that much of a chance. Everything's pretty much in our end.

Dave Stewart

The pitching is there, the defense is there, we've just got to find a way to score more runs. Our mental approach is lacking.

Jon Bolin

The main reason for Bayer's cautious forecasts is a lack of visibility.

Andreas Theisen

Our beef, for lack of a better word, is with FEMA, not with the victims.

Tony Pinto

What we have at the moment is a quite remarkable lack of knowledge about what's out there and how to defend against it. Until it's addressed, you're going to see this again and again.

James Adams

We were all lacking intensity. We had a gut check and we started feeding off each other for open shots.

Brad Meyer

It's not surprising, given the lack of IPO activity.

Mary Macdonald

We dominated in every area of the game. I feel that our overconfidence resulted in a lack of goals.

Bill Kirk

I have really high expectations for this year. We are a young team, but what we lack in experience, we make up for in ability.

Chris Winter

There's probably a lack of awareness from the Europeans about the problems we have with illegal trade.

Stephanie Theile

As I've said before, I think criminal intent was lacking.

David Larsen

Why that is important is because on some fires those additional treatments aren't carried out due to lack funds.

Dan Donato

We get more complaints. it's clearly harder dealing with a lack of inventory.

Mark Lamping

I wanted to bring some emotional leadership that I felt we were lacking. The last couple of years we've had a guy that's kind of done that. And he's gone.

Legedu Naanee

Support from a lack of new supply will be short-lived.

Makoto Yamashita

There was a lack of execution. We were not aggressive at all offensively in the second half, and the defensive intensity that Hickory was showing bothered us and it was obvious.

Todd Davis

[Franchisees] would view that as a lack of faith in the business, ... And the damage that would do, and that's not an exaggeration, we believe would be irreparable.

Matthew Paull

I think it's a good gesture. The government is showing concern about the financial industry especially with some of the smaller brokers complaining about the lack of business.

Kent Yau

To me this is another example of the failure of Citizens, ... Certainly there is a lack of confidence that the public has in it, and these types of situations justify that lack of confidence.

Ron Klein

We've seen a couple carriers already decide to move some early A380 routes to San Francisco because of lack of confidence that LAX can handle an A380.

Allan Mcartor

I haven't been given the lack of arrogance, which would make me act like a 60-year-old. When they came to rescue me, I was intact.

Bettye Lavette

I don't think Redlands is falling to dastardly gremlins. I think the council has done some good things but I think there is a lack of trust.

Scott Siegel

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

John Lubbock

Nobody escapes. Whoever gets caught, it is not for a lack of education.

Jesus Campos

I think the (lack of) the draft is definitely a key. Today they are not impacted.

Linda Spatz

Because of a lack of funding, officers trained in SWAT are also trained in canine and how to deal with gangs.

Jerome A. Jackson

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Elbert Hubbard

A lack of concentration. You can?t do that. Even though you?re up 14 at the half, you have to keep building on the lead. You can?t let a team hang around. We could have been up by 22. It would have been a more comfortable lead than having to battle back and forth.

Ashley Allen

One could level some accusations at the European investment community for the lack of [Internet stocks].

Nick Gibson

For lack of a better term, I'm just ready for some closure. This thing has run its course.

Gary Joe Kinne

For a court to award that kind of money, the court has to find an utter lack of basis.

Stephen Gillers

Outside of the inexperience our other big concern will be the lack of size. In the Commonwealth District that was a major concern, I'm assuming it will be one in the Cedar Run as well.

Tim Kearney

They did count on public pressure to some extent due to the lack of any available compounds that provided benefits to these people.

Raymond James

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

Christopher Smart

The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.

Michael Cunningham

There has been a glaring lack of entry and exit protocols both before and after 9/11. It's hard for me to imagine other industrialized nations operating any differently.

John Keeley

It's not for a lack of effort. They're doing everything we ask of them. We just don't have a lot of wide bodies up front.

Steve Hoffsommer

The most immediate (concern) we have is lack of safe drinking water.

Johanna Reese

I sensed there was a lack of confidence, they were tense.

Jacques Santini

All the speeches were conducted with remarkable civility, and a lack of redundancy.

Tom Feeney

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. .

Jack Kerouac

It's a strong U.S. dollar across the board against all currencies. There's a lack of data until we see Dodge speak today.

Linda Jespersen

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

The challenge for us is that we're never going to be able to deliver that level of results on a consistent basis because of our lack of facilities.

Simon Clegg

Unlike City Hall, we have to double up because of lack of adequate space.

Janet Brown

We're hoping for 100 percent compliance, it's a very simple thing. It's the lack of information, and lack of understanding and education.

Barbara Petersen

We tried twice. The first time, results were lacking.

David Rosenthal

We're going to have some children that are new to our community and then also lacking one of their parents for their first year or so here because of their parent being deployed.

Melissa Thomas

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

I really thought I was going to win that race. It was lack of experience. But I felt like a winner that day.

Mebrahtom Keflezighi

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of service men and women lack basic financial knowledge.

Robert Glauber

Dan Hawkins needs to go out and recruit because they are lacking speed on this football team.

Bob Davie

The lack of effort shown by the Department of Justice in investigating this very substantial fraud is shocking.

Stephen Munkelt

Our morale is better than you would expect. We're staying positive. There's no lack of confidence; we know we have the people to do it.

Steve Panarelli

For lack of a better term, the Town Site.

Tom Harp

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart

We try not to have the kids go lacking.

Clifford Hopkins

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

David Castro

When Danny feels there is a lack of consistency, it adds fuel to the fire of his frustration. It seems to be the same story, over and over again.

Bob Weiss

A lack of clutch hits has been a problem for us the last couple of weeks. We've been getting hits but not when we need them.

Ann Munzenmaier

They're out of business. It's over for them. There was a lack of desire to continue to fight this thing going forward.

Charles Baker

The lack of credit education available to college age students is troubling considering that most of us start developing credit and making financial decisions that will affect our credit the day we arrive here.

Anoop Shah

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Miller

And there is the added element of lack of funding despite the fact this is seen and said to be a top priority for most donors.

Ted Chaiban

They're kind of like, for lack of a better word, National Geographic-type documentaries. But they're not boring.

Chris Rossing

The lack of pollution is the main factor. I was surprised that the difference between New Zealand and the U.S. was so high.

Richard Mckenzie

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Bob Beauprez

I make films I believe in. Today my strength is emotional drama. I know I lack courage to do a variety of films but I am getting better.

Karan Johar

The amazing part is that there appears to be a lack of any motive behind this except destruction.

David Mayer

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term.

Frank Gannon

It's a general lack of interest at the moment, a lot of stocks are going ex-dividend.

Ric Klusman

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

William Henry Davies

Lack of space is the reason for most of the ailments that captive elephants are suffering from.

Carol Buckley

And what that translates into is the public distrust of decisions or lack of respect.

Arlene Silveira

We have yet to see many people hospitalized for lack of drugs, but we're headed that way.

Sam Muszynski

I was addressing some of our JV and their lack of passion.

John Mcfall

Our belief is that there seems to be an increasingly frequent systemic lack of objectivity in a lot of the regulatory decisions that are flowing from USDA.

Pat Trask

We're not getting any information. Our lack of communication is a real problem.

Jeffrey Williams

It was a total lack of focus, concentration and intensity. You add all that up and it equals 27 turnovers and a loss.

Jay Sparks

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates

This shows a lack of judgment that calls into question whether he should remain in the government.

Chris Grayling

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele, Sr.

In our conference, if we win doubles, we have a big advantage. Most teams, because of lack of scholarships, have a drop off in the bottom of their singles, we don't have that.

Tim Maluga

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

William Morris

Executives are hired for their technical skills and experience but fired due to a lack of leadership ability.

John G Agno

People are exhausted by this instability, the lack of security.

Gerard Le Chevallier

I think the lack of experience has cost us to a degree, but the kids have made some strides and improvements. I've been pleased.

Mike Walton

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

Don Williams, Jr.

The game was just lacking the intensity. (Mostly) going through the motions, hard to get into the flow.

Greg Adams

The greatest friend of con artists is lack of knowledge.

Jane King

At this time in their careers, compared to those other guys, they're more talented. Hopefully that athletic ability, the speed, will make up for some of that lack of experience.

Bud Foster

They all say they're waiting for response from FEMA. It's quite pathetic to have that lack of response from FEMA.

Chris Wright

One person falls, then another falls. ... You get scared to mess up. It's inexperience and sometimes a lack of confidence.

Jessica Parenti

I would attribute it back to a lack of strong demand.

Anthony Black

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

John Mccarthy

We're way behind the times and not catching up to the advances in technology. Here we have the ability for so many of the people to have children, but they're not able to because of lack of coverage.

Julie Salz Greenstein

There's a great lack of education with these deputies and it's not their fault. It doesn't seem like [county officials] have learned a lot by what has happened.

Dennis Scheib

You have a lack of basic management controls. I have a complete lack of confidence in the management of our state government.

Ron Saxton

I'm disappointed for the guys, not in them. We didn't play the way we're capable of early, and that put us behind the eight-ball. It wasn't from lack of effort. We've been hot ? maybe we were due for a game where we were a little bit off.

Scott Dalton

It wasn't for a lack of effort.

Darren Jackson

If there's a buyer, somebody's going to be out there selling it. The only thing that can impede [DSL demand] is price and lack of technology.

Frank Dzubek