Ameen Rihani
Ameen Rihani

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

Brian O'Driscoll
Brian O'Driscoll

You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.

David Antin
David Antin

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

Emma Bell
Emma Bell

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

Hans Kung
Hans Kung

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

J. B. Pritzker
J. B. Pritzker

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.