Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded. — Matt Dillon
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it… — Henry James
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. — Jewel
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. — George S. Kaufman
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. — Thomas a Kempis
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. — John P. Kotter
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as… — Jacques Lacan
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. — Gary Larson
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the… — John Locke
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip,… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. — Bryant H. McGill
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous… — Earl Nightingale
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from… — Susan Orlean
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal
Never find fault with the absent. — Alexander Pope
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation,… — George Santayana
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously… — Cat Stevens

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