Absent Quotes

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

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Greater things are believed of 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.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

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

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.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

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

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.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

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.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

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

Woman absent is woman dead.

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

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.

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