absence Quotes

That (Cornell's absence) made a big difference. The score might have been closer, but the outcome would have been the same.

The girls really stepped up in Leanne's absence. They cut the lead to seven late in the third quarter and hung around the entire contest. The game was a lot better than the final score looks.

The \'control of nature\' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man

In the absence of timely and accurate data, that makes effective oversight more difficult.

I am now really looking forward to the season. And why not? Absence makes the heart grow fonder,

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

There was one area of the state he did not buy TV and that was Metro East. Where we went head-to-head in the absence of TV ads, we won 2-1.

The failure of work manifests itself in many ways: diminished self-esteem, toil without dignity, long hours on the job, poor pay, and the growing financial disparity between rank and file (the typical CEO in the 1990s made 150 times the average worker's pay), petty bureaucratic politics, the purposelessness of many of our tasks, the gnawing lack of creativity, fulfillment, and genuine sense of involvement on the job, the absence of autonomy, the increasing sense of isolation, excessive competitiveness, ineffective and

The best way of ensuring that you don't get infected with something like this, in the absence of an effective vaccine, would be isolation,

I believe we would miss an opportunity if we did not take a real good look at why there is an absence of African-Americans.

The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding back both economic growth and stock prices. In the absence of any such disruptions, we expect that crude will stay in the $50-$70 range this year and will likely always be on investors' minds.

FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, we may see another rally between now and the end of the year.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood

[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in November) and added,] They're very tight-lipped about their private lives. ... next year there'll be the three of us.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.