Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go… — Mike Holmgren Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more… — Shalini Copy Share Image
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith]. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Britain is leaving and has de facto left the European Union; however, it has not withdrawn from its special relationship with the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries?… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage?… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did… — Edwin Morris Copy Share Image
I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before… — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices… — Nancy Travis Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image