Pastoral Resources

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.