A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them. . . it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.
Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.