It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. — Bobbie Ann Mason Copy Share Image
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace 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
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
