#absence

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#age #better #fonder #get #grow

Judicious absence is a weapon. ↗

— Charles Reade

#judicious #weapon

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#absence #conflict #handle #means #peace

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroyed #friendship #increased #like #long

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#animal #bad #belief #believe #credulous

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#any #arab #democracy #hard #ignore

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bright #delicate #good #influence #keep