It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ~By William H. Seward ~
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ~By Freya Stark ~
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ~By Jose Ortega Y Gasset ~
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~By William Cowper ~
God is absence. God is the solitude of man. ~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. ~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ~By Orson Welles ~
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ~By George Byron ~
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. ~By Neal A. Maxwell ~
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. ~By Earl Nightingale ~
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ~By Brendan Behan ~
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ~By Alan Greenspan ~
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ~By William Shakespeare ~
Judicious absence is a weapon. ~By Charles Reade ~
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~By Henry Ellis ~
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
I dote on his very absence. ~By William Shakespeare ~
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ~By John Millington Synge ~
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~By Nelson Mandela ~
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ~By Wole Soyinka ~
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. ~By Virgil Goode ~
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ~By Leonard Cohen ~
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. ~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ~By George Saintsbury ~
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. ~By Salman Rushdie ~
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
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. ~By Antonin Artaud ~
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ~By Mary Astell ~
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. ~By Bob Kane ~
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ~By Irving Babbitt ~
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. ~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ~By Roger de Rabutin ~
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system. ~By Barack Obama ~
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ~By Karl Marx ~
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country. ~By Karl Radek ~
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. ~By Peter Cook ~
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. ~By Ronald Reagan ~
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. ~By Ezra Cornell ~
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. ~By Tucker Carlson ~
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ~By Vaclav Havel ~
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. ~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
Absence - that common cure of love. ~By Lord Byron ~
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ~By Ray Kroc ~
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. ~By Harold Pinter ~
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~By Leo Rosten ~
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. ~By Elijah Wood ~
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ~By Alice Koller ~
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. ~By Jacques Lacan ~
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. ~By Wayne Dyer ~
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ~By Thomas Fuller ~
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. ~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus. ~By Michael Burgess ~
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. ~By Salman Rushdie ~
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. ~By Derek Bailey ~
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~By Jean Paul ~
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. ~By Julia Roberts ~
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ~By William Gilmore Simms ~
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. ~By Anais Nin ~
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Peace must be more than the absence of war. ~By Helmut Kohl ~
In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes. ~By Pieter Zeeman ~
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ~By George Grosz ~
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ~By King Hussein I ~
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ~By Bram Fischer ~
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ~By Brendan Behan ~
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~By Saint Augustine ~
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need. ~By Nancy Travis ~
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. ~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. ~By Ali A. Saleh ~
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ~By Edward Everett ~
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. ~By Nick Rahall ~
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ~By Willa Cather ~
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ~By Thomas Hardy ~
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~By Baruch Spinoza ~
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. ~By Francis Wright ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ~By Thomas Paine ~
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation. ~By Jack Schwartz ~
But I still always felt the absence of a mother. ~By Marcel Carne ~
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed. ~By George Combe ~
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. ~By John Robert Seeley ~
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. ~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ~By Alfred Marshall ~
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. ~By Julie Christie ~
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. ~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~By Mark Twain ~
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. ~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. ~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
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