Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that… — Barack Obama
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. — Jean Paul
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. — Pope Paul VI
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it… — Steven Pinker
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Bonnie Raitt
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. — Ronald Reagan
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers… — Julia Roberts
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. — Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. — Bertrand Russell
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. — Theodore Roosevelt
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if… — Leo Rosten
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. — Salman Rushdie
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it… — Salman Rushdie
God is absence. God is the solitude of man. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children… — Dan Savage
When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's… — Curt Schilling
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. — Will Self
I dote on his very absence. — William Shakespeare
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. — Wole Soyinka
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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