Famous Quotes & Sayings

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

We'd like to talk to him and see what he knows. He's conspicuous by his absence.

Vaclav Havel

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.

Alex Wong

Trading was confined within a narrow range in the absence of fresh stimulus. Overseas markets lack momentum and and there isn't any fresh news that could drive up activity.

C. J. Mahaney

Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

Dick Armey

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

Paul Rand

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.

Clifton Fadiman

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Cynthia Ozick

I think at this moment, in the absence of Bellow, that Roth is the most courageous American writer. There's nothing he's afraid to say.

I think a reduction in 2005 was mostly because of the absence of supply of lots. Quite a few of my builder friends are out of land.

We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows further and housing declines more because of higher interest rates and energy costs. The absence of inflation will be welcomed at the Federal Reserve.

My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.

With the absence of Nathaniel Brooks, our star running back, the young boys looked good in spots. At the quarterback position we've just got to live and die with the young kid (freshman Matthew Sonnier) until he gets his confidence. And we're working with a brand new line on the left side.

Richard Boucher

The president's back, we have been working very hard in his absence, and we look forward to his determination, his energy, and his seriousness in carrying the ball and moving forward from here.

Gabrielle Giffords

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

We left Gaza and they continue to shoot at us from there, so if we leave another area will we have quiet? Israel will have to go back in, like a zipper -- go in, go out -- in the absence of a Palestinian leader ready to put an end to the militias.

Emraan Hashmi

I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

There are a lot of people who hate Wal-Mart. In the absence of data, they have a visceral reaction,

Daniel Tammet

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

The players responded well in his absence, but that's a huge blow.

This research is intriguing because it associates genetic risk for dementia with twins' cognitive deficits, even in the absence of dementia. The differences in cognitive deficits between identical and fraternal twins are also important, suggesting that the twins who were more similar genetically had the greater risk.

There basically is an absence of sellers in the market. It seems the market is a little ahead of itself, but people are reluctant to sell. People are still putting money to work here in the market.

William Wordsworth

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

We were working on, at the very end, how do you demonstrate the absence of ants? This is more of a control program now.

We will continue to assume our responsibilities and find a way to continue the electoral operations in his absence.

Victor Hugo

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

We believe that this is likely to adversely impact sentiment towards semi vendors with exposure to PCs in the absence of what would have been a potentially significant catalyst for PC holiday consumer sales.

Arthur Schlesinger

When lies must be told, they should be told by subordinate officials. At no point should the president be asked to lend himself to the cover operation. There seems to me merit in Secretary Rusk's suggestion that someone other than the president make the final decision and do so in his absence -- someone whose head can later be placed on the block if things go terribly wrong.

Jean Fernandez

Fabien was in great form at the moment. His absence is a bitter blow for the team.

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Muhammad Yunus

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.