Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy… — Chungliang Al Huang Copy Share Image
If I cry will you ever wipe away my tears, if I become weak will you still be there to keep me… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health… — William Osler Copy Share Image
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“You know what they say. Absence makes the heart grow fonder." "If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Before you decide to make me see that absence makes the heart grow fonder, realize that absence can lead to the heart… — Stacy Wilks Copy Share Image
Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other. — Jean Royer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to move on than to hold on to a person who don't understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes. — W. Rolfe Kerr Copy Share Image
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
