Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
If your absent during my struggle,dont expect to be present during my success. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, Nobody, especially the president, would have… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
People who expect constant proofs of love and distance themselves from you when these become absent don\'t love you back. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky... Just as the bite of the blade wakes… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When I stopped doing ALL the work, some people became absent in my life! It's a good thing because it makes me… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not… — R. O. Blechman Copy Share Image
How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
