Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Portman

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Emma McLaughlin

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Lionel Stander

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

We had a total lack of leadership, ... I've turned that around.

We are really trying to respond to that lack of clarity.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Gwen Moore

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Menachem Begin

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Patrick Modiano

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

Jason Alexander

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.

We are not where we want to be, not for lack of effort, but because the process simply takes longer to produce results than any of us would like.

Phil Klay

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

With our athleticism and our lack of height, we need to play up-tempo. That's what we've been training for. That's our style, and that's what we've been playing all year.

P. J. O'Rourke

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

G. Stanley Hall

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Oscar Hijuelos

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

Mark Webber

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

B. D. Wong

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

This report demonstrates the United Nations lacks the institutional red lights and alarms necessary to warn of misconduct,

Jon Corzine

We were told that the president didn't know about the sale until after it was approved. For many Americans, regardless of party, this lack of disciplined review is unacceptable.

UCLA was on fire. Because of our lack of depth, we had to play zone a lot. And then they would light it up.