Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Had I known that it would be tough for me to cope with your absence, I wouldn't have get to much with… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
"Consent must be freely given, can be withdrawn at any time, and the absence of 'no' does not mean 'yes.'" How many… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Some people will never ever appreciate your presence until your absence becomes permanent. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Life is too ironical to understand... it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Whoever coined the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder,’ was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy.” — Toni Aleo Copy Share Image
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We think that we like looking at the sky because it's beautiful. But in reality we just miss home. — Micheal Sams Copy Share Image
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Lovely relations are like a ring. If we wear it, it will hold our finger tightly. If we remove it, it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation. — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
“He was my sun, my moon, each planet, and stars. And those rare moments he wasn’t around, my body ached at his… — RaShelle Workman Copy Share Image
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
Not only strive to make your presence noticed, but also contribute to make your absence felt. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
