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Tag Name "Absence" (839)

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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
William Gibson
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
Henry Moore
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
Sri Chinmoy
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Relaxation is the absence of worry.
Albert Brooks
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
William S. Burroughs
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
Margaret Atwood
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
William Shakespeare
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Alan Greenspan
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus
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I have been long a sleeper but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
William Shakespeare
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All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
William Shakespeare
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In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
William Styron
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Grief is natural the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
Plutarch
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The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka
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Play is an expression of God's presence in the world one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
Mike Yaconelli
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That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
Adrian Desmond
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
Adam Gopnik
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