#sence

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#humor #impossible #life #renders #total

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#history #human #human history #ideas #the history of

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #dolls #enormous #expressions #facial

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#essence #manifestation #periodical #universe #unknown

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#cathedral #center #community #computer #days

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#am #become #body #brain #connected