It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

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

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

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

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

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

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

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

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

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