In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.