...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you. — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes 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
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win. — Andy Bechtolsheim Copy Share Image
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persue all people of whatever rank,… — Pope Urban II Copy Share Image
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass 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
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
