Absent Quotes
- Page 2The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Robert Bly
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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'
Lydia Ko
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt