“I find that nothing is quite as I remember; in my absence, the world has changed.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I let you miss me sometimes but my absence should not be so long that you learn to live without me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
