#absence

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#arab #arab world #huge #off #saddam

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

#absolute #free #himself #ideally #individual

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love #ocd #pain #love

Life has become the ideology of its own absence. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#become #ideology #life #own

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#deer #during #fine #four #fox

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement. ↗

— Mario Monti

#base #because #disagreement #government #ground

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. ↗

— Donna Rice

#after #back #because #broke #company

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#appeal #barbarism #made #standards #which

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #bill #conspicuous #created #finger