When my absence doesnt alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
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
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
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell 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
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
What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout… — William Buckland 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 great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence.… — Donna Rice Copy Share Image
The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes — Hannah Moore Copy Share Image
We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. — John Lennox Copy Share Image
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