Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,… — John Donne 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
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists… — George Will Copy Share Image
“If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with… — Michael bassey johnson Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. … Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a… — Noeleen Heyzer Copy Share Image
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Truly belive in sum1 doesnt mean to share secrets … Its about enjoy evry thng of life with the person n be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth. — William Styron Copy Share Image
You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
“Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Life is too ironical to understand... it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
