absence Quotes

We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... <br /> Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust<br />My absence doth neglect no great design<br />Which by my presence might have been concluded.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. \'Di

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's \'Imagine.\' What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

The problem with death is absence

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.