Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future. — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present… — Shalini Copy Share Image
Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress. — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
