Absence Quotes

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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.

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

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

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

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

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.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

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 the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.