All Quotes

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
‐‐ Saint Augustine

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
‐‐ Elijah Wood

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
‐‐ Barack Obama

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
‐‐ Derek Bailey

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
‐‐ Paul von Hindenburg

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
‐‐ Dallas Roberts

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.
‐‐ Terrence J

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
‐‐ Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
‐‐ Brigham Young

In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all.
‐‐ Keeley Hawes

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
‐‐ Marvin Sapp

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
‐‐ Carl Forti

In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
‐‐ Jose Manuel Barroso

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
‐‐ S. I. Hayakawa

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
‐‐ Jacob Ruppert

In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
‐‐ Elie Metchnikoff

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.
‐‐ J. August Richards

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
‐‐ Chris Adami

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
‐‐ Don Bluth

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
‐‐ Vito Fossella

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun