I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.
Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.
Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.
I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.
Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.
We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.
I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.