(58 quotes found)
“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap”
Jacques Barzun
“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.”
Walter Bagehot
“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge themÍž but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
Contributed by: Dan Hansen
Helen Keller
“This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,”
George Blackburn
“This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all.”
Hugh Laurie
“Many people are deficient in vitamin D.”
Cedric Garland
“Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.”
Cedric F. Garland
“That's a real deficiency when only two of five guys are grading out.”
Bob Spoo
“Most people don't know what a deficient diet looks like, but you can tell from their poop. This is like having a vet in your yard.”
Darek Farmer
“We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we would also say that the people in China are enjoying a level of human rights that is unprecedented in our history,”
Zhu Rongji
