True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future. — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what… — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
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
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
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
Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of… — Cyril Wong Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
