In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence — Marcus Aurelius 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
When my absence doesnt alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In your absence my heart grows stronger. In your presence I fall in love again. — Kemis Khan 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
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always make your absence felt in such a way that somebody misses you, but don't let your absence be so long, that… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Im missing someone right now, but I can't do anything about it because in my absence, He found his happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone shouldn't need to be faced with your absence to value your presence. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw. — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
