Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do… — Derek Luke
Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair… — David Plouffe
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it. — Charles Rangel
Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's… — Bob Saget
I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Propertius
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. — Anne Bancroft
... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that… — Symeon the New Theologian
We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling… — Eugenia Price
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And… — Joyce Cary
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just… — Julian Baggini
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck… — John Chafee
I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity… — Charles Darwin
I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over… — Patsy Kensit
Isnâ€™t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isnâ€™t the object always absent? â€”This isnâ€™t the same languor: there are two… — Roland Barthes
A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself.… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind… — John O'Donohue
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away.… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too… — Jean de La Fontaine

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