I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It's the '70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops.… — Robert Kilroy-Silk Copy Share Image
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if… — Yvonne Woon Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks… — Mona Kuhn Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“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
But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I am not afraid to lose one who jst was my frnd .. But I am afraid to lose tht person who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
