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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.
Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
While I can make do with technology for other administrative work, I have to be physically present in my constituency, or I will be marked absent.
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.