Quotes of: Absence Keyword

It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.

Unrequited

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

The Zahir

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Pablo Neruda

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

Robert Fanney

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.

Sean Young

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.

Terence McKenna

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Thomas Paine

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Janet Yellen

Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people.

M.F. Moonzajer

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and pa...

Richard Dreyfuss

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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.

Edward Everett

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

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Frances Wright

Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

C. J. Mahaney

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Bob Kane

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

John Charles Polanyi

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

Anthony de Mello

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

Anuj Somany