Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple — Mahmud Shabistari
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Greater things are believed of those who are absent. — Tacitus
Woman absent is woman dead. — Ambrose Bierce
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in… — George Soros
Friends, though absent, are still present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the… — Mother Teresa
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don't be absent from your own life. — Jessica Lange
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. — Georges Rodenbach
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead — Louise Brooks
So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory,… — Pat Tillman
Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. — Frederic Bastiat
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of… — Elvis Costello
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious… — Mark Twain
Hate can only flourish where love is absent. — William C. Menninger

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