Absence Quotes

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.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

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.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

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.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I dote on his very absence.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

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

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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.