To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.
Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.
It makes no sense to complain about a lack of imagination in scientists when their failure is simply that they cannot make the world be what it is not, and they cannot make the world do what it cannot do.
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty
A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.
. . . it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.