Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.
In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.
The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.
But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.