Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom…

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they…

— Gary Bauer

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

— Zaha Hadid

There were illegal poets like Muzaffar al-Nawab, this is the thing - Muzaffar was widely known and he didn't really have books. He would…

— Elliott Colla

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

— Howard Zinn

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is…

— Julian Baggini

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence,…

— Cassandra Clare

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious…

— Symeon the New Theologian

“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”

— Amit Kalantri

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

— Socrates

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man…

— Anonymous

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

— Jonathan Majors

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each…

— Erin Morgenstern

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

— David Nicholls

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force…

— Anonymous