I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

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

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

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.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

I lack confidence as an actor.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

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

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I lack trust in others.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.