Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced… — Charles M. Blow
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they… — Charles M. Blow
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every… — Marwan Barghouti
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to… — Camilla Gibb
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom. — Amrita Pritam
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What… — Wendell Berry
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.… — Terry Tempest Williams
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the… — Donald Rumsfeld
The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence — Donald Rumsfeld
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to… — Toni Morrison
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — John F. Kennedy
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives — Margaret Beckett
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner
Peace must be more than the absence of war. — Helmut Kohl
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,… — Jerzy Grotowski
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? — Arthur Miller
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of… — William Gilmore Simms
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some… — Elena Kagan
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final… — Ernest Holmes
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin

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