(484 quotes found)
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!”
William Shakespeare
“The absence of war is not peace.”
Harry S Truman
“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
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Havelock Ellis
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
Chuang Tzu
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
Edsger Dijkstra
“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
Dorothy Thompson
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
Clara Barton
