Top 25 Absence Quotes of 358 - Page 15

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Forget, Absence, Made

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

Cameron Dokey

Miracle, Absence

Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

C. J. Anderson

Absence, Values

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Brandon Sanderson

Joy, Absence, Discomfort

Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.389, Macmillan

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Bill Nighy

Doe, Way, Absence

Source: www.moviesonline.ca

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Barbara Tuchman

Confusion, Heirs, Absence

When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.

Arlen Specter

Independent, President, Absence

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

Anthony Trollope

Spring, Needs, Absence

Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn…”, p.543, e-artnow