Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will… — Joseph M. Juran Copy Share Image
“Your brand is your personal lawyer... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Life is like a football game, you get excited for that one day but when the one you're supporting lets you down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Edge Copy Share Image
Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The youth of Punjab is directionless in the absence of job opportunities which drag them deep into the drug net. — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. — Rumi Copy Share Image
