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.
So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.
The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
