The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks… — Mona Kuhn Copy Share Image
I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact… The absence of the flesh in writing… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family. — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Whoever thought up the phrase Absence makes the heart grow founder was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
