Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass…

“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows…

— Zeina Kassem

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise…

— Jesse Jackson

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

— Deborah Tannen

“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them…

— Jane Lotter

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

— Maya Angelou

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the…

— Phil Dusenberry

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

— James Howell