Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

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

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

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

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

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

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Is not absence death to those who love?

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

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

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

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

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.