I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation’s schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it’s unfortunate.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I’m obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources – the less you have, the more stylish you’re likely to be.
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.’
I don’t watch that much comedy. I think it’s professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
We need a new Latin American policy that is bold – different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.
Given Mr. Obama’s lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.
For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.
Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I’ve learned to accept people’s lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.
It’s hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It’s so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children’s ‘resumes’ may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.
Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don’t belong, who lack the numbers. I’m very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It’s not fair to the people who went in early.
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I’ll eat anything. I’ll eat dirt.
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn’t be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
It’s wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It’s just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it’s a lack of concern.
It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
There’s no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it’s neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
That’s one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
I don’t know if there is a ‘lack’ of good black men. But when you haven’t taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can’t possibly find that person for you because you don’t even know what you’re looking for.
I think what’s wrong with the fashion world, particularly men’s fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.
We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
I’m a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn’t care.
