“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Sorry for my absence.. My life is not just facebook.. I have other things to do as well.. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.' — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I am not convinced absence makes the heart grow fonder. Perhaps we should test the veracity of this axiom more thoroughly, you… — Elisa Braden Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
She looks for someone to fill her empty heart. She looks for someone to call her beautiful. She looks for someone who… — Cori Morton Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted -… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“What have you been doing during my absence?' 'Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.' 'And getting a good deal paler than you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You lose respect for a person who says things about you in your absence. — Urfi Javed Copy Share Image
It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
