The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Alex stepped out from behind the rock. Relieved to see him in one piece, I threw myself forward and hugged him. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris 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
If your presence didn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse — William James Copy Share Image
Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have removed the spleen from a dog, from cats, and rabbits. In all cases, the animals survived the operation and did… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other. — Jean Royer Copy Share Image
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy… — William Hague Copy Share Image
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