(484 quotes found)
“Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
William Cowper
“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”
Gerald Jampolsky
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka
“Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.”
Pierre de Coubertin
“Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence”
Brendan Behan
“Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace”
Anne Shaw
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”
Aleister Crowley
“Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”
L. Ron Hubbard
