Absence Quotes

1418 quotes by 972 authors

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland
How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have… — Lawton Chiles
Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease… — William Osler
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready… — Adam Clarke
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we… — Charles Spurgeon
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you. — Ashleigh Brilliant
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects… — Linda Hogan
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. — William Cowper
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate… — Carol Bellamy
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in… — Isaac Asimov
Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere. — Rajneesh
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible.… — Rajneesh
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. — Sri Chinmoy
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher

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