Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

- Ben Shapiro

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

- China Mieville

I lack confidence as an actor.

- Charles Durning

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

- Constance Baker Motley

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

- Curtis Joseph

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

- Confucius

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

- Charles de Montesquieu

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

- Brooke Shields

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

- Bob Crosby

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

- Blaise Pascal

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

- Aeschylus

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

- bell hooks

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

- Alex North

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

- Alex Kingston

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

- Allison Anders

When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.

- Ava DuVernay

I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.

- ASAP Rocky

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

- Arthur Erickson

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

- Annie Lennox

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

- Albert Camus