I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks… — Mona Kuhn Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates… — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Whoever thought up the phrase Absence makes the heart grow founder was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
