Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

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

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

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

The absence of fear is love.

The absent are always in the wrong

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

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

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

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

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

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

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

The absent feel and fear every ill.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

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

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

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