Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 282 authors

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to… — Rob Bell
By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction… — Thomas Keating
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.… — George Washington
Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent. — Penelope Hobhouse
At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent — Paul Kantner
I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persÂue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights,… — Pope Urban II
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is… — Jessica Valenti
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. — Michel de Certeau
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you. — Sylvia Brownrigg
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. — Alexander Pope
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little… — Bob Black
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione
How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come… — Swami Vivekananda
Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special… — John Taylor Wood

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