Quotes with absence

Quotes 81 till 95 of 95.

  • Anais Nin The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Arthur Miller The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Ouida The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Butler There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Josh Billings Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John McCain We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Brendan Behan When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Arthur Miller Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Ray Kroc While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Earl Nightingale You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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