Absence Quotations | Page 6

The girls really stepped up in Leanne's absence. They cut the lead to seven late in the third quarter and hung around the entire contest. The game was a lot better than the final score looks.

The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

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?

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.

An abrupt end to the U.S. military presence would probably lead to an upsurge of violence among Iraqis and offer new opportunities for terrorists, but this does not excuse the absence of a new strategy for orderly disengagement.

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

The market will move relatively sideways in the absence of any stimulus. There's a lack of trading theme.

The market is trading on pure worry right now, ... There is an absence of hard information, but when people see the pictures of the damage along the coast, it's hard not to become very worried.

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

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

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

The law must be applied firmly and in a spirit of dialogue and respect, ... The absence of dialogue and an escalation of a lack of respect will lead to a dangerous situation.

The long-term absence of relief agencies could force many, many thousands of people into displacement.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

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

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

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

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

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

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

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

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

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,

... the absence of theistic belief.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

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.

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

Fear is the absence of faith.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear....

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

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

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

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

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

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

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

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

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

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

The problem with death is absence

The absence of disease is not health.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

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

Conspicuous by his absence.

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

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.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Your absence has gone through me

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

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

I dote on his very absence.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

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.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

Never find fault with the absent.

Is not absence death to those who love?

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?

somewhat troubled by the absence of a consistent policy governing our willingness to permit the President to participate in these private, commercial tributes . . . .