Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

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

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

The color white is the absence of memory.

The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone.

The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era." Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.

The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

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.

The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

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

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be about that, but it has to have that journey; I have to learn something, I have to end up somewhere I didn't expect to be, otherwise, I don't think it's painting.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.