The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna 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
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
“Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here.… — Daniel Beaty Copy Share Image
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
When I was younger, loneliness was really scary - it felt like an absence - and now I feel human beings are… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
