Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. — John Berger Copy Share Image
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California,… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps… — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty… — Thomas Jefferson 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
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I let you miss me sometimes but my absence should not be so long that you learn to live without me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.' — David Eller Copy Share Image
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
