True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
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
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida… — Lawton Chiles Copy Share Image
