Quotes 41 till 60 of 95.
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
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I believe absence is a great element of charm.
Source: Endymion (1880) -
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégoût given by satiety.
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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.
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I'm surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
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If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
Source: The White Album (1979) 89 -
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.
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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.
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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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.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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