The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer,… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that… — George Soros Copy Share Image
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics.… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love. — Lauren London Copy Share Image
I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione 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
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent. — Godfrey Copy Share Image
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
