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
Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone… — Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the… — Baruch Spinoza 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
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to… — Anonymous 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
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
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams 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
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I am not afraid to lose one who jst was my frnd .. But I am afraid to lose tht person who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
