of Deficiency
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emil Cioran
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Samuel Johnson
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. Bernard Bailyn
It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficiencies. But our task is to discern the sort of error or deficiency. Norman Angell
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate. Joshua Reynolds
Deficiencies come by the kilo and go by the gram. Ukrainian Proverb