People with money will often try to buy gifts for people in their lives to repress the guilt of not being around, but these rarely work. And rich people often end up with spoiled kids who may be well-cultured, but who lack ambition or a taste of education.
>> How to Get Rich

“Wishing for or desiring something is futile without an inner compulsion to achieve it. Such lack of compulsion, if not frankly acknowledged, can lead to great personal unhappiness. We have all met deeply unhappy souls muddling along in professions or careers for which they are patently unsuited. Worse still, by continually wishing and never delivering, you risk denting your confidence, beginning a vicious downward spiral that appears to draw misfortune like a magnet. The assumption that you might be able to achieve some goal if you only wished hard enough is not just a f***-up. It’s a potential personal tragedy.”
>> How to Get Rich

Mathilda opens her overcoat: inside, a dozen of grenades everywhere. One lacks its ring.
>> 这个杀手不太冷Léon: The Professional Movie Script

Leon is slightly annoyed by Mathilda's lack of cooperation.
>> 这个杀手不太冷Léon: The Professional Movie Script

Many organizations struggled — and some failed — during the pandemic not because they weren’t nimble or innovative, but because they were felled by a single devastating blow. The root of this problem, in many cases, was either a lack of diversification or an overemphasis on efficiency and optimization.
>> Why was one able to thrive while the other floundered?

We all felt Norman’s pain, even us guys who lack empathy.
>> 2024-9 stadium, gym naked

As I said before we lack the resources to implement the changes the district demands.
>> 为人师表 Stand and Deliver (1988) Movie Script

24. I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
>> 马斯克的给企业家的名言警句

So I tried to create one. I never expected the company to grow beyond 50 people. So maybe I really did lack ambition or vision back then. I don't know. It was a long time ago and I was very young.
>> a pivotal moment in my life

There's been a perpetual and virulent lack of discipline upon my vessel. Why?
>> Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End加勒比海盗：世界的尽头 Movie Script

Is that a lack of faith in Jack or in me?
>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 加勒比海盗2：聚魂棺Movie Script

The Chinese didn't receive our request for homing beacons until is was too late to get them set. And the planes had to take off so early they may lack fuel to make the mainland anyway.
>> Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

I know that's upset you in the past; and you've felt that it was because of some lack of trust or confidence. But it is because I do trust you that I've kept so much secret from you. It's precisely that at this moment, you are the only one that I can completely trust. In time, you'll understand everything.
>> The Godfather: Part II 教父2 1974 Movie Script

It's the lack of doubt.
>> 公正裁决 Equity (2016) Movie Script

- Well-- - Ed feels like you lack confidence in his IPO!
>> 公正裁决 Equity (2016) Movie Script

"Your navel is a bowl Well-rounded with no lack of wine. " "Your belly, a heap of wheat Surrounded with lilies. " "Your breasts... " "... clusters of grapes. " "Your breath, sweet-scented as apples. " Nobody's gonna love you the way I loved you.
>> 美国往事Once Upon a Time in America Movie Script

But the storm and the long drive the day before had taken its toll in energy. By dawn, half the men were asleep in their saddles. They wanted to stop, but again Call pushed on; he knew they had lost ground, and was not going to stop just because the men were sleepy. All morning he rode through the herd, encouraging the men to push the cattle. He was not sure how far they had come, but he knew they still had a full day to go. Lack of water was beginning to tell on the horses, and the weaker cattle were barely stumbling along.
>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

“You ain’t women yet,” Clara said. “I’m the only one around here, and he better spruce up if he wants to keep on my good side.” July soon returned to work, but his demeanor had not greatly improved. He had little humor in him and could not be teased successfully, which was an irritant to Clara. She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn’t recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them. Bob had never responded to teasing, or even noticed it, and her powers in that line had slowly rusted from lack of practice. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on—she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better—in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.
>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

“No, sir,” Wilbarger said. “My foreman died, south of Fort Worth. I have another herd somewhere ahead of me, but I can’t leave to go check on it. I don’t know that I’ll ever see it again, although I may.” “What’d he die of?” Augustus asked. “It’s a healthy climate down that way.” “He died of a horse falling over backwards on him,” Wilbarger said. “He would test the broncs.” “Foolish,” Augustus said. “A grown man ought to have sense enough to seek gentle horses.” “Many don’t,” Wilbarger pointed out. “That mare Captain Call wouldn’t trade me didn’t look that gentle, yet he’s a grown man.” “Grown, but not what you’d call normal,” Augustus said. “I put it down to lack of education. If he’d been trained in Latin he’d most likely have let you have that horse.” “Do you consider yourself normal, then?” Wilbarger asked.
>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

Sometimes Po Campo sang in Spanish. He had a low, throaty voice that always seemed like it was about to die for lack ofbreath. The songs bothered some of the men, they were so sad.
>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇