Absence Quotes - Page 39

• It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Men, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

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• In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

  Tony Abbott

  Drawing, Facts, Enough

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Opportunity, House, Criticism

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Reflection, Moon, Sky

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• The absent feel and fear every ill.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ill, Feels, Absent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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• Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

  Josh Billings

  Passion, Doe, Virtue

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• The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Law, Two, Perfect

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Knows

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.108, Penguin

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• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Natural, Disaster

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

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• absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Decay, Fancy, Affection

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  Eda LeShan

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

  John Berger

  Real, Painting, Real Things

  1988 In New Statesman and Society,15 Jul.

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• A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.

  Anuj

  Circles, Leader, Toxic

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• Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

  Matt Chandler

  Mean, Goodness, Facing Fear

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• Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Real, Night, Light

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• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Children, Years, Broken

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• Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Smell, Vices

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• In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

  Pat Summitt

  People, Negative, Care

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• Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

  Prince Ea

  Doe, Evidence

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• I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

  Penn Jillette

  War, Party, Self

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Imagination, Effort, Movement

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.121, Sentient Publications

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• Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

  Pete Egoscue

  Pain, Wellness, Limitation

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• Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

  Timothy Keller

  Fit, Constraints, Findings

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.64, Penguin

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