It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.” — Robert Copeland Copy Share Image
“May God be everywhere you are about to look and absent where you already have.” — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising… — Douglas J. Moo Copy Share Image
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“This is a roll call! SEAN BELL! Then she followed with “Absent again today! OSCAR GRANT! Absent again today! REKIA BOYD! Absent… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue;… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image