#presence

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#born #economic #end #energy #even

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#international #need #new #new york #paris

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. ↗

— Henry Constable

#blush #her #lady #lips #makes

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#even #leave #longer #people #place

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#diminishing #earth #end #exploiting #future

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#curriculum #kids #like #lurking #many

Your children need your presence more than your presents. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#children #more #need #presence #presents

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#beauty #fellows #her #i #jealous

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#contributes #economic #garment #hand #other