Absence Quotes · Page 18

Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt

— Anonymous

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

— Mark Rippetoe

Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

— Prince Ea

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

— George W. Bush

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

— C.J. Langenhoven

“What's unchanging about us is the absence of change.”

— Sabah Carrim

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

— Harold Laski

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

— William Shakespeare

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

— Ravi Zacharias

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living…

— Mitch Leigh

“Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

— Matt Chandler

“A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this…

— George H. Smith

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

— Mark Lanegan

Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by…

— Winona LaDuke

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to…

— Barack Obama

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's…

— Adam Gopnik

I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If…

— Joshua Rogers

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue…

— Daniel Goleman

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,…

— Bill Cosby

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading…

— Ban Ki-moon

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by…

— Samuel Johnson

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a…

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

“He could be anywhere by now, so that is where I look for him. Anywhere... There are times when I don't recognize…

— Claire Kilroy

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced…

— Eric Hoffer

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace…

— Toni Morrison

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is…

— Alexander Schmemann

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

— Michel Houellebecq

“His absence is so big it's like he's there.”

— Patrick Ness

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

— Terence McKenna

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Courage is not the absence of fear but the acquired ability to move beyond fear...

— Anonymous

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

— Erwin Rommel

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

— Lisa Kleypas