| "Your children need your presence more than your presents." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "As men, we are all equal in the presence of death." »Publilius Syrus |
| "I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence." »Gary Trudeau |
| "Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses." »Margaret Millar |
| "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." »Chester Bowles |
| "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown |
| "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin |
| "If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out." »Christina Baldwin |
| "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." »Anna Louise Strong |
| "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir |
| "A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without." »John Stuart Mill |
| "It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood |
| "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." »Albert Einstein |
| "But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." »Marianne Williamson |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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