#absence

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#better #civil #civil society #direction #energy

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#fighting #love #nothing #worth

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ↗

— Elizabeth Ashley

#blood #does #fonder #grow #heart

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ↗

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

#fonder #grow #heart #makes

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#compared #grief #happiness #hates #life

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ↗

— Freya Stark

#any #art #dose #family #family life

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#certain #far #find #furnishing #i