Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

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… — Hannah Arendt
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God… — Annie Besant
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,… — Geraldine Brooks
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
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… — John Calvin
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but… — Ronald Reagan
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. — R. T. Kendall
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences… — Jean Giraudoux
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law… — Robert Breault
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. — Rajneesh
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that… — Frederic Bastiat
CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to… — Rajneesh
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. — George Burns

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