Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers… — Lynn Nottage
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. — Mike Murdock
The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. — Ursula Hegi
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover… — James Cameron
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to… — Tom Clancy
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance.… — Andrew Weil
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — Unknown Author
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but… — Michel de Montaigne
Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow… — Sean Hannity
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen… — Leo Strauss
What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such… — Jacques Chirac
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them — Don Meyer
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling… — Sri Chinmoy
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the… — Gustav Mahler
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to… — Gregory Maguire
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch… — John Owen
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought. — Henry Steele Commager

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