“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it… — Brassai Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects...… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Its stupid how your ex says to you I'm here if you ever need me. where the hell were you when we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
