Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints. — Helen Lynd Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie 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
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent… — Learned Hand 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
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective… — John Howard Copy Share Image
“He could be anywhere by now, so that is where I look for him. Anywhere... There are times when I don't recognize… — Claire Kilroy Copy Share Image
