It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes its better to move on than to hold on to a person who doesnt understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach… — Arcine Arciniegas Copy Share Image
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private… — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Can I say one other thing that's very important? I'm indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we've had this problem… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The youth of Punjab is directionless in the absence of job opportunities which drag them deep into the drug net. — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified. — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
