Absent Quotes

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Absence, Absent Friends

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• The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Lessons

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• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Shapes, Assuming

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• 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.

  Bob Saget

  People, Interesting, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 of a lot done.

  John Chafee

  House, Needs, Done

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• My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

  Greta Scacchi

  Father, Hero

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Recognition, Nasty

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.48, MIT Press

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• Never find fault with the absent.

  Alexander Pope

  Faults, Literature, Absence

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Vanity, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The absent are always in the wrong

  Philippe Nericault Destouches

  Absence, Of Sight Out Of Mind

  "L'Obstacle Imprévu" by Philippe Néricault Destouches, translated by Nérine, Act I., Scene VI, 1717.

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• 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.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer" edited by Barry J. Farber, (p. 38), 2003.

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

  John James Audubon

  Mother, Father, Navy

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• When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Complacency, Zen Buddhism

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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

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• Woman absent is woman dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Absence

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

  Robert Bly

  Boyfriend, Children, Dad

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.59, Da Capo Press

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• 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.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Cancer, Lists, United States

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• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

  Propertius

  Lovers, Absent Mindedness, Ardor

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• 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 why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Responsibility, Mirrors

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• A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Work, Men, Two

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

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• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.163, Random House

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• Absent in body, but present in spirit.

  Paul the Apostle

  Body, Spirit, Absence

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

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Gentleman, Merciful

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

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• 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.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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