We think that we like looking at the sky because it's beautiful. But in reality we just miss home. — Micheal Sams Copy Share Image
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Lovely relations are like a ring. If we wear it, it will hold our finger tightly. If we remove it, it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“He was my sun, my moon, each planet, and stars. And those rare moments he wasn’t around, my body ached at his… — RaShelle Workman Copy Share Image
When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation. — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
Not only strive to make your presence noticed, but also contribute to make your absence felt. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Freedom, then, is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realize now more than ever how much you really mean to me Because when I can't hear your voice I feel… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains? — LIZ Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder...sometimes it just makes it easier to say goodbye. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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