Absent Quotes

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.

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.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

Woman absent is woman dead.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

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.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

Never find fault with the absent.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.