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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
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.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.
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.
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.
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.
Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence!
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.
