Absence Quotes - page 4

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour. (Gerhard Richter)
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. View quote
Paulo Freire
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan. View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
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. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews. View quote
Geza Vermes
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. (Ian McEwan)
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings (épures), plans (schémas), etc. One only right solution imposes itself : namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. View quote
Anthony de Mello
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought. View quote
André Maurois
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down. View quote
Arianna Huffington
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Peace must be more than the absence of war. View quote
Helmut Kohl
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. (Camille Paglia)
Being oppressed means the absence of choices. View quote
Bell hooks
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. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up. View quote
Timothy Geithner
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important. View quote
Stephen Covey