#absence

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#bad #bad day #day #days #good

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship. ↗

— C.J. Langenhoven

#friendship #love #friendship

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. ↗

— John Robert Seeley

#conquered #fit #half #mind #peopled

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#loss #light

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ↗

— David Bowie

#absolute #challenging #confront #confrontation #corpse

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#back #came #could #death #dublin

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#become #believe #cooperation #international #international cooperation