Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere… — Jim Hamilton Copy Share Image
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes. — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to… — John Chafee Copy Share Image
“I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven -… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“Markarismenos apousia fovia or notata absentia phobia is the fear of being marked absent.(In the lecture)” — Khosla N Copy Share Image
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community,… — Elizabeth Cox Copy Share Image
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him,… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
