#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

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. ↗

— David Remnick

#extent #mainstream #means #party #republican

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#doubt #due #frequently #inefficient #intemperance

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

— Jack Schwartz

#any #arab #democracy #hard #ignore

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. ↗

— Rumi

#love #love

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued