Absent Quotes
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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. (Quote by - Osho)
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
My presence of mind is frequently absent. (Quote by - Rain Bojangles)
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak(Quote by - John Donne)
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
This active movement against the insults to the Prophet has been absent on many other issues which are no less important. (Quote by - Saad Hagras)
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Those who are absent, by its means become present: it (mail) is the consolation of life. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: / (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) / We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (Quote by - Bible)
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent. (Quote by - Elisa Massimino)
I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded. (Quote by - Jean Giraudoux)
The listwas woefully incomplete. They are running a serious risk right now if they put those names up and they don't know the answer to that question [of who was absent from the party]. (Quote by - Robert Ekstrand)
Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting – and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why. (Quote by - Tim Rice-Oxley)
A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.from "Self-Reliance". (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God. (Quote by - Barry Long)
The unity of the three H's is essential. ‘Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Never find fault with the absent. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The absent are always in the wrong. (Quote by - Philippe Nericault Destouches)
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. (Quote by - Gary Larson)
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. (Quote by - Lawrence G. Lovasik)
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears. (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination(Quote by - Ovid)
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. (Quote by - Lawrence G. Lovasik)
Friends, though absent, are still present. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Quote by - Propertius)
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. (Quote by - Cicero)
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
They just figured she was probably absent voluntarily because she had done that in the past, been absent for a period of time. The family didn't sense anything unusual, so no missing person report was made. (Quote by - Detective Bryan Jamison)
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. (Quote by - George Burns)
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
In depression faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. (Quote by - William Styron)
For, thus friends absent speak. (Quote by - John Donne)
Long absent, soon forgotten. (Quote by - Proverb)
A wide group of Minnesotans have been working on improving results for kids since the early 1990s, What we're seeing is the outcome of a long development process of school accountability and improvement that would have happened absent No Child Left Behind and absent Cheri Yecke. (Quote by - Steve Kelley)
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. (Quote by - Robert Copeland)
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. (Quote by - John Calvin)
Absent in body, but present in spirit. (Quote by - Bible)
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. (Quote by - Colette)
Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Achilles absent, was Achilles still. (Quote by - Homer)
I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
A $100 million pay package absent strong performance would certainly be unacceptable. (Quote by - Jay Leupp)
I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race. (Quote by - Condoleeza Rice)
