Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant H. McGill

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
William Moulton Marston

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
Brent Scowcroft

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
Nils-Axel Morner

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Theodor Adorno

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
Tom Cruise

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
Martin H. Fischer