Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

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

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

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 strongest presence is so often an absence.

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 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.

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

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

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

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 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.

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

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

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

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.