Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Get well soonest the love of my life. I love it when you are well and up on your feet. For sure… — Arcine Arciniegas Copy Share Image
I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence. — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not. For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Sometimes when someone leaves you feel likea piece of you has been torn out. You fill in that void with things that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices… — Nancy Travis Copy Share Image
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest… — Alexander Sutherland Neill Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.' — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Sorry for my absence.. My life is not just facebook.. I have other things to do as well.. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image