absence Quotes

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that.

What is slander? A verdict of \'guilty\' pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word \'terrorism.\' It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being unpatriotic. That's an unacceptable series of equations.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.