Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am… — Gabrielle Hamilton
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill.… — Joan Dunayer
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to… — Irshad Manji
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart;… — Ibn Ata Allah
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent… — John Tyler
Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in… — Sri Chinmoy
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if… — Steve Pavlina
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her… — Unknown Author
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by… — Heloise
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence).… — Laura Schlessinger
Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the… — Michael Bloomberg
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence. — Eckhart Tolle
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of… — Colin Greenwood
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. — Carl Icahn
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering,… — Paulo Coelho
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. — Isaac Newton
In the absence of observers, our universe is dead — Andrei Linde
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… — Charles Darwin
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite… — Christine de Pizan
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort —… — George Saunders
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing. — Kabir
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other… — Alan Dershowitz

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