I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love. — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
“Sometimes absence is required, to feel a person's presence more intensely.” — Indrani sarkar Copy Share Image
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear. — Mark Messier Copy Share Image
We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated… — Dick Clement Copy Share Image
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
