Absence Quotes · Page 16

Peace in a country does not mean absence of war but when things are in order.

— Anonymous

“After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

— Matthew Walker

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

— Marya Hornbacher

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

— Milton Friedman

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

— Anonymous

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

— Diane de Poitiers

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

— Anonymous

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

— Gary Zukav

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such…

— Bruce Sterling

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

— Anonymous

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived

— Vaddey Ratner

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

— Paulo Coelho

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

— Ronald Reagan

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

— Mary Kay Ash

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

— Arthur Miller

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without…

— William Gilmore Simms

It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no…

— Kevin Brooks

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence…

— Florence Nightingale

Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality.…

— Erich Fromm

In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in…

— Amy Waldman

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral…

— Steven Pinker

I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a…

— G. M Gilbert

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every…

— Rollo May

There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to…

— Henry Giroux

In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is…

— Doug Casey

Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to…

— Ron Padgett

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion…

— Theophile Gautier

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander…

— Nathaniel Branden

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

— Terence McKenna

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“His absence is so big it's like he's there.”

— Patrick Ness

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

— Michel Houellebecq

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

— Lisa Kleypas

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

— Erwin Rommel

Courage is not the absence of fear but the acquired ability to move beyond fear...

— Anonymous

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings