Quotes with absence

Quotes 21 till 40 of 95.

  • Miguel de Cervantes Absence, that common cure of love.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Alice Koller 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.
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • A. W. Tozer Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.''
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ambrose Redmoon Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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  • Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear .
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. J. Mahaney Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ben Nelson For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Samuel Johnson Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bootsy Collins Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Zhuang Zhou Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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