Absent Quotes

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

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 opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

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 and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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, not an embrace.

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

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 it is in its submission to symbols.

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 what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

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 idea we call love.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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 fragrant.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.