absence Quotes

Food for thought, no comments. During the ten years of Khrushchev\'s \\'thaw\\', which was primarily characterized by the absence of political prisoners in the country, more than 10,000 people were convicted under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (responsibility for counter-revolutionary activities). During the twenty years of Andropov\'s \\'repressions\\' and the \\'cruel\\' 5th Directorate, about 800 people were convicted under the same political article.

In the absence of arguments, they are limited to quotations.

Better disappointment in love than its absence. Otherwise, there is absolutely no point in living.

The absence of any plan greatly complicates it search.

Useless transformations are needed in order to hide the absence of useful ones.

As a weapon, the Germans used gas, and the Russians used its absence.

The devil is not so terrible as the absence of the Internet.

Sense of humor is a relative concept. But his absence, it seems, is absolute.

A graphomaniac is a criminal caught in the absence of a craftsman\'s sense of proportion. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Righteousness is the absence of a need for justice.

People do not spoil money so much as their absence.

Everyone wants to suffer because of a lack of personal life. Because of the absence of the brain, no one wants to suffer.

Some halo only emphasizes the absence of the head.

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Absence of occupation is not rest.