Absent Quotes
320 quotes by 282 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
— Benedetto Croce
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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
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Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.
— Penelope Hobhouse
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At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent
— Paul Kantner
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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
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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
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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
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To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
— Michel de Certeau
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Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
— Sylvia Brownrigg
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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
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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 Žižek
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
— Gary L. Francione
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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
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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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